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By DAPHNE HUTCHINSON
Rappahannock New* Staff Writer
Washington has a new well ready to gush ISO gallons per minute but taps went dry again last Friday as the town waited...and waited...and waited for results of health department tests on the new water source.
At an emergency meeting Friday night, the town council approved hauling 10,000 gallons per day into Washington’s reservoir as long as the latest water emergency continues, according to waterworks supervisor Charlie Jenkins.
Although hauling brings the per gallon cost up to two and a half cents, Jenkins said that council currently has no plans to increase water rates to recover the added expense.
The irony of this most recent water crisis is that it comes four weeks after well driller Larry LeHew’s strike of a 150 gallon a minute gusher.
In a steady S3 hours of pumping, the new well spewed more than 47 times the capacity of the tankers now hauling water to the town. Samples were sent immediately to the health department for testing, but to date results have not been returned.
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