BISMARCK, ND ( KXNET ) — The University of Mary is soon starting class which means hundreds of faucets, showers, and toilets will be active in the next month.

Campus supervisors are looking at switching their wastewater.

Right now, the campus collects the water in several lagoons just south of campus.

The university has an agreement with Burleigh County and the city of Bismarck which would send the water to Bismarck’s water treatment plant.

UMary is now applying for a Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities or ‘BRIC’ grant.

“We’ve had a wastewater lagoon system since our founding, and it’s served us quite well, but we’re growing and we’re growing and to enlarge that lagoon system or to make it more appropriate, would be very, very difficult and so we’re looking for the support of the federal government, state, the city everyone kind of come together so support us in being able to put in a better system,” UMary Executive Vice President Jerome Richter said.

Richter says the project would cost around $7 million. Meanwhile, classes start at UMary on September 3.

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