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believe that you’ve taken so long to act on this problem. Surely something could have been done at the very beginning.”
Miller responded, “There’s nobody who wants water more than 1 do. Believe me. if someone had told me Friday that we would work as hard as we have on this and still not have water, I would have laughed,” The tired council members nodded in agreement.
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Brad Fisher explained why the emergency had come to a head more quickly than the council expected: “There were five feet of water in the reservoir Friday night and it was empty Saturday morning. Normally, we use 10.000 gallons a day: in twelve hours we used 30,000 gallons.” Fisher said that evidently people paniced when they heard about the shortage, but that a large leak also contributed to the problem.
Patrick O’Connell and Rinehart Lynch, proprietors of The Inn. said that they had done a lot of research into obtaining water to keep their restaurant open. Although they had not been successful, they offered to share some of their information with the council.
The mayor warned of the hazards involved in opening up old wells (see seperate story).
Ryan asked if a state of emergency had been declared.
Miller replied that all state levels were aware of the emergency. Miller and Fisher said that the only advantage they were aware of in having the supervisors declare a state of emergency in the county would be to have drinking water brought in by the National Guard.
“As far as I know, everyone has drinking water." Miller said, "either from the water at the church or from outside the town. If anyone doesn’t have water to drink, they can call me and I’ll personally bring some from my farm."
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