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(Continued from Page 1) since then. People are conserving and I think we’re getting more from the new well than we originally expected,” Miller said, adding that the reservoir level was up from a low point of about three and a half feet to six feet by noon on Monday, January 26. (Six feet in the reservoir works out to about 30,000 gallons, about a third of the tank’s 100,000 gallon capacity. On an average, town consumption amounts to approximately 10,000 gallons per day. According to town treasurer Brad Fisher, however, usage doubled to near 20,000 gallons per day two months ago.)
Miller said that Charlie Jenkins, councilman and supervisor of the town’s water works, has been kept busy as the weather has warmed, repairing leaks from broken pipes which weren’t detectable in below freezing temperatures. In the past week, the mayor added, Jenkins has closed two leaks in lines on the town’s side of water meters and eight or ten on the customers’ sides. “As far as we know, everything’s fixed now.”
Meanwhile, efforts are continuing to find a long term answer to Washington’s water problem. Last Tuesday, Miller met in Charlottesville
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