History of the Norridgewock Water District
The Norridgewock Water District was incorporated in 1953 and construction began in June 1954 on the lower end of Waterville Road. A.P. Wyman, Inc. was the construction company that installed the initial 32,554 feet of distribution mains (30,324’ of transite pipe and 2,230’ of cast iron pipe), public hydrants, and services. The Pittsburg-Des Moines Company built the standpipe (water tower). During this time an 84’ deep gravel-packed well was under construction, along with the pumping station and equipment (on the corner of Upper Main St and Winding Hill Rd).
Initially installed were 114 residential services supplying water to 137 customers, 24 commercial services, 2 industrial services, 3 public authority (governmental) services, and 1 service for private fire protection. There were 33 public fire hydrants and 2 private fire hydrants. All of these customers were receiving public water by January 1955.
Over subsequent years residential, commercial, and public authority services were added, as well as public fire hydrants and sprinkler systems. There are 10.42 miles of distribution service pipe.
Main replacement work has been done on the Waterville Road, a portion of River Road (when the bridge was rebuilt and the river crossing for the water line was moved to Oosoola Park), the Smithfield Road, a section of Willow Street, the lower end of Main Street, most of Upper Main Street to the pump house, and the Madison Road.