Louviers Water and Sanitation District

The Louviers Water and Sanitation District (LWSD or District) provides water and sewer service to the Louviers community, located approximately seven miles south of the intersection of Santa Fe Drive and C-470, as shown in Figure 1. Figure 2 shows the current district boundary which encompasses approximately 75 acres, and which also defines the District’s service area.

The District’s service area generally includes residential and commercial development in the Louviers community. The Louviers community consists of a total of 110 lots plus two Douglas County Parks, all of which are currently developed. The 110 lots are comprised of 107 residential lots (one of which has two water services), a church, post office, the village club community center and the two Douglas County Parks for a total of 113 water customers. The 2010 census data indicates that 269 people live within the Louviers community, or approximately 2.51 people per residential unit (269 people/107 residential lots).

Louviers was originally a company town for the DuPont Corporation, and the collection and distribution systems were constructed by DuPont. The time of construction of the water and sewer systems is not well documented. Most of the houses in Louviers were constructed in the 1910s, however the earliest documentation of the water and sewer systems is a plat prepared in 1960. It appears that the water and sewer systems were existing at the time the plat was prepared.

Since the early 2000s, LWSD has made a number of improvements to the system including adding a second water storage tank; constructing a land application system for tertiary treatment of wastewater; constructing a second water supply well; and replacing approximately 1900 linear feet (lf) of water and 2650 lf of sewer pipelines. These improvements have helped the District address regulatory compliance issues and reduce repair costs and system outages.

LOUVIERS WATER AND SANITATION DISTRICT CONCEPTUAL WATER AND SEWER MASTER PLAN WAS PREPARED IN NOVEMBER 2020.

The purpose of the Conceptual Master Plan is to develop an initial framework for the

District’s long-term capital planning using information developed in the previous planning documents. This plan is intended as a tool for understanding the overall magnitude of the District’s planned infrastructure improvements and as a starting point for discussions related to the feasibility and timing of those improvements. Initial development of a master plan is often an iterative process to develop an acceptable balance between scope, timing and financial requirements, and this conceptual master plan should be considered a first step in that process.