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While Washington’s water problems are far from over, conservation efforts and greater than anticipated flow from a new town well have combined to scale down the situation from a near state of emergency to the “state of inconvenience” described by mayor Newbill Miller.
Water hauled in three times per day at SI05 a load enabled the town to turn its public system back on as of January 17 after failure of Washington’s supplementary well left residents with dry faucets on January 9. To offset the expense, the town council adopted an
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