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emergency rate increase, charging users $4.45 for consumption of up to 1,500 gallons with a fee of three cents per gallon over that limit.
The crisis was caused by failure of the town’s 66-foot supplementary well that provided water after primary sources for the public system, three springs on Jenkins Mountain, gave out seven months ago in face of the drought that has been strangling Virginia and much of the East Coast since last summer. Two weeks ago, a new town well was sunk on the
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