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about 200,000 gallons a month are being lost through leaks in many of the main lines. The project will also include replacing the meters and installing backflow preventers on them, now a requirement.
“We have to justify to the citizens what we are doing,” Mr. Miller said. He asked what the town expected to pay for the upgraded water system. Mr. Morehouse said the budgeted amount was $660,000.
“That’s a lot of money for 238 people,” Mr. Miller said.
Mr. Fisher said the town had not yet selected a bidder for the new well because he doesn’t know whether it will require an eight-inch or six-inch pipe. He said he had figured out the cost of all bids for a 500foot well for both six-inch and eightinch pipes, and the lowest bidder for the six-inch pipe was not the same as the lowest bidder for eight-inch pipe.
Mr. Fisher said the Environmental Protection Agency required that the town pass a resolution discontinuing the use of the spring. Mr. Miller suggested that Town Attorney Frank Reynolds first conduct a title search to make certain the town wouldn’t lost the spring or the rightof-way from the spring to the reservoir if the town stopped using the spring.
“There may come a time when we have to use the spring and we have to do the filtration treatment,” Mr. Miller said.
Mr. Fisher suggested that in the meantime the town explore what to do with the spring. “One of the fastest growing industries is bottled spring water,” he said.
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