EPCOR Water is working to bring an existing potable water well back into service.

The well site is actually located on the Desert Canyon Golf Course east of the intersection of Saguaro and Kingstree boulevards.

The well is located between the sixth and seventh fairways of the course and is visible to some homeowners who live east of Saguaro on Indian Wells Drive.

The $1 million improvement project will bring the long-standing well back into service, erect an eight-foot masonry wall around the site and include a recent town-approved 42-foot communications tower.

While EPCOR primarily uses water from the Central Arizona Project, which is brought to the Phoenix area via a canal from western Arizona and the Colorado River, the refurbished well will be a reliable back-up.

“Bringing this well into service is an important project for our Chaparral service area,” said Rebecca Stenholm, director of public and government affairs for EPCOR.

“It will ensure that we are able to provide adequate water supply when the Shea water treatment plan is shut down for regular maintenance.”

That treatment plant handles and treats the water that is pumped into Fountain Hills from the CAP canal in Scottsdale at Shea Blvd.

“Our team has been carefully coordinating its work to bring this well into service as safely and quickly as possible with the golf course,” Stenholm added.

Once the well is working again, it will be connected to an existing pipeline that runs along Kingstree Blvd. and ultimately connects to a storage tank on Fountain Hills Blvd. near the Botanical Garden.

Some construction work is currently going on near the storage tank as well.

EPCOR is expecting the well to be in service by early October, just prior to a scheduled shutdown of the Shea treatment plan at the end of October.

“Before the well is put into service, the water will be rigorously tested by our water quality experts to ensure that it meets federal and state drinking water standards,” Stenholm said.