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approval process to roll, the replacement well drilled last January went dry, Washington’s third water source to give out in the past year.
Serious water problems began in June, 1980, when the town’s primary source, springs on Jenkins' Mountain, quit flowing. For seven months, water was pumped from the old 66-foot town well until that doo dried up in January.
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