East Central Regional Water District

East Central Regional Water District, a U.S. government entity based in Thompson, North Dakota, acts as a prime recipient of federal water infrastructure grants and as a sub-recipient on water-supply expansion and contamination-remediation projects funded through the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior. The district operates as a state government entity and competes exclusively in the federal grant space, not as a prime contractor on service or supply contracts.

East Central Regional Water District's footprint is entirely grant-driven. The district holds one prime grant award: a Drought Resiliency Projects grant from the Bureau of Reclamation, dated September 7, 2021, with ultimate completion in August 2022. The remaining seven awards are sub-recipient positions under the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality as prime grantee. These sub-awards span water-treatment-plant (WTP) expansion phases, service-area extensions to communities including Grandin and Hatton, and contamination-remediation work under the Emerging Contaminants in Small or Disadvantaged Communities Grant Program. The most recent sub-awards, dated June 27, 2025, focus on Hillsboro WTP expansion and represent three distinct sub-grant entries from the same prime grantee in a single funding cycle.

Customer concentration is heavily weighted toward the Environmental Protection Agency Region 8, which funds seven of ten total awards in the source portfolio. The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation accounts for two awards, and the Department of the Army Corps of Engineers accounts for one. The portfolio spans $33.6 million in combined dollars obligated across all ten awards, with activity concentrated in 2022 (three awards) and 2025 (three awards), suggesting periodic grant-cycle participation rather than continuous pipeline. The vendor acts as prime in 30% of awards and as sub-recipient in 70%, placing it firmly in a subordinate-grantee role with the North Dakota Department of Environmental Quality as the primary federal-interface organization. No federal contracts, IDVs, GWACs, BPAs, or schedule vehicles are present in the source data. Work performed is classified under PSC Utilities-Water, reflecting the district's core mission as a regional water-supply operator conducting capital-infrastructure improvements and drinking-water quality remediation.