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"We're going to run out of money before we reach water."
"He's drilled a lot of wells.” Jenkins continued, "and he says we're not going to find water there." Jenkins' motion to try another site was approved unanimously. The council members agreed to cap the abandoned 600-foot hole—at least for the time being.
"We're getting four gallons a minute now. Who knows? It we get a lot of rain, it might turn out to be a good well," said Fisher. "We might get eight gallons a minute if the water table is brought back up."
He noted that communities all across the country are having to sink wells one, two and three thousand feet because the water table has dropped so low everywhere.
Fisher said later that the town of Washington uses approximately 300,000 gallons of water per month and therefore needs a well that produces at least ten to I 2 gallons per minute.
(Washington is not alone in its water supply problems. State Health Department water supply engineers are monitoring a growing number of water shortages in communities generally located west of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Officials sav as many as 15 communities in Southwest Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley are experiencing water shortages due to the lack of rainfall in the state.
F.ngineers in the Health Department's regional offices in Lexington and Abingdon are working with town leaders to find additional water sources and are e\ aluating other alternatives.
The systems most seriously affected are those that, like the town of Washington, depend on springs or wells for their main source of water. Springs and wells in the limestone legions of Southwest Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley are more dependent on rainfall than are deep wells and major streams.)
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