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Article: Water shortage presents deep dilemma.(Government)(Junction City: A neighborhood struggles to decide how to fix its water problem without prohibitive expense.)
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- The Register Guard (Eugene, OR)
- Article date:
- March 18, 2002
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Byline: JOE MOSLEY The Register-Guard
JUNCTION CITY - Larry Brown and perhaps a dozen and a half of his neighbors share a troubling dilemma: city water all around, and nary a drop to drink.
They depend instead on a private water system that branches in undersized lines from a shared well originally intended to serve only a few households. Brown has been the water system's unwilling owner since he bought his home 10 years ago, struggling to keep the water flowing during each summer's dry period and losing an average of $400 per month in the process.
"Imagine running 20 houses off of 15 gallons per minute," Brown says, referring to the well's ...