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By Kevin Allen
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Tbwn of Washington’s reservoir has been up and running for about two months, but engineers and town officials are still working out some kinks in the 10-year-old pump house that serves the new facility.
Washington Mayor Eugene Leggett told the Tbwn Council on Nov. 8 that a leak under the town reservoir’s pump house was losing some 50,000 gallons of water a day.
“We think we’ll be able to [fix it] in a manner in which we ‘will not disrupt service to the town,” Leggett said at the meeting.
On " Saturday, Culpeperbased Country Water Systems built a temporary bypass around the leaking pipe under the pump house. The bypass prevents further leakage and provides time to plan a fix for the pump house, but it is not a permanent solution.
Troy Jenkins, water and wastewater operator at the Sperryville Wastewater Plant, said the leak was discovered Tuesday. At the time, the 38foot-tall structure had seven feet of water in it, he said. That means the 225,000-gallon tank contained less than 50,000 gallons.
“[The leak] hasn’t been located at this point,” Jenkins said. “We think that it may be beneath the floor in the pump house or some location very near the pump house, because we have water coming up by
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