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By JON HEDDLESTON
KaffafcateMckNaw* Staff Writer
It was mid-morning last Friday when Carolyn Pullen, a cook at the Inn at Little Washington, went to the tap to get some water for chicken stock she was preparing. "The water’s out again,” she lamented after a spin of the spigot didn’t get a drop. Is the water off all over town?” Heidi Morf, also a cook at the Inn, beckoned to a passer-by.
Morf and Pullen were only two of many town residents inconvenienced for more than an hour September 7 while repairmen corrected a minor water leak on Gay Street. The leak, repairmen said, was in a three-quarter inch “house line.” In order to fix it, though, repairmen Ray Pullen of Washington and Thurman Whorton of Flint Hill had to dig a five-foot-deep hole- then shut off water to the entire town.
Hie minor leak points again to a major nuisance: the antiquated pipelines that are part of WashingUrn’s water-supply system.
As he discussed the problem, Repairman Pullen pointed to a map of the water “Plan of Washington, Va.,” a plan drafted November 1, 1906 and put into place early in’37.
According to Repairman Whorton, who has been called in on numerous occasions to patch the system, the primary and secondary lines are original. “We have very little plastic in town,” Whorton said shortly after he repaired the leak, which this time was in a plastic PVC
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