By Rich Flowers
rflowers@athensreview.com Jul 13, 2021
Jul 13, 2021
After years of planning and preparations, drilling is now underway for a new water well to service the City of Athens, Athens Municipal Water Authority Executive Director Ed Gatlin said Friday.
Powder River Well No. 1 represents a major addition to the Athens water system. Our hydrologist is on site and watching day to day operations at the well, Gatlin said. He will give us reports and keep us up to date.
Over the past few years, AMWA drilled eight test wells on property off Farm-to-Market Road 2495 to give Athens a potential water supply for decades. The wells were planned to set the city up to continue to have ample water should the area go through a period of severe drought as was experienced in the early part of the past decade. Water from the new well will connect directly into the water system and will not have to go back to the location where the water is currently brought into the sys
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