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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock Staff Writer . There’s water flowing from Washington's taps this week but the town’s water crisis continues.
Springs on * Jenkins Mountain that serve as primary sources for the gravity flow system are still dry. So is the supplementary 66 foot well which has pumped continually over the past seven months since the springs gave out.
The town spent $3,(XX) last Monday for three-quarters of an acre adjoining the old well house. Well driller Larry LeHew went down 410 feet on Wednesday at the spot indicated by a Front Royal dowser only to find a disappointing flow of four gallons per minute well under the 15 gallons sought by Washington Mayor Newbill Miller.
In the meantime, the town has contracted with a local supplier to haul in three tanks of water a day to dump into the empty reservoir. Each 3,600 truckload costs $105. according to town treasurer Brad Fisher — “$90 for the truck and $15 for the water."
The trucks have been arriving regularly since Friday after an inauspicious beginning. The tanker got stuck on the narrow winding road up to the reservoir with its second load until Bruce Critzer come to the rescue with a push from his front end loader. . Tha supplies have made it possVWe for the town’s water system to be turned back on 24 hours pei day after running just a few hours in the afternoon last week. But with the price tag on the tanker’s loads, what’s flowing from the faucets could arriost qualify as liquid gold.
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