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<br />WATER WASTE — Bill Dunn, left, with neigh- flow was finally stemmed, but not before an es-
<br />". ' bars Sam DeSando and John Maher, watch in dismay timated 400,000 gallons of precious water had soaked
<br />as -gallon after gallon flows onto the grass from a ' the surrounding area.
<br />.broken water line in Dunn's backyard. The two-week (Press-Journal—Sam Rohlfing)
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<br />r' By Sam Rohlfing bubble gallon after gallon out onto the Since then, Dunn's water meter, as
<br />�+ : "It's been two weeks!" Bill Dunn grass, soaking it finally to the point of well as that of his neighbor to the west,
<br />slogged angrily through the saturated complete saturation. John Maher, has become completely
<br />grass in his back yard. Dunn reported that he contacted Mid- submerged.
<br />• Dunn and three adjacent neighbors Florida Utilities, the private service that "I had to put in a new leach field at my
<br />,gathered around what appeared to be a owns the water line, and explained what own expense," Dunn explained,
<br />small, sparkling artesian well along the had occurred. . "because the old one was soaked and
<br />west edge of his property as they ex- Dunn told the Press -Journal a man backed up."
<br />plained to the Press -Journal their recent from the utility company came out, Another neighbor, Sam DeSando,
<br />water problems. observed the leak, stuck a screwdriver shook his head as he watched the water
<br />-' About two weeks ago the water line in into the ground, told Dunn he had a. flow across the yard.
<br />V nan's back yard broke and began to broken pipe and left. "What a great waste," he sighed..
<br />"It's a health hazard," added Dunn.
<br />"And a nuisance," concluded Maher.
<br />• . ,, l Dunn thrust a long screwdriver into
<br />the ground several feet away from the
<br />"well." It came up very wet.
<br />Walking across the grass, shoes sank
<br />Into the soggy soil. It was like walking on
<br />a sponge. l
<br />The Press -Journal talked to the
<br />manager of Mid -Florida Utilities, I. C.
<br />o a i McAllister. He explained that a three-
<br />l quarter -inch reducer connection from a
<br />lVa-inch water line had apparently rotted
<br />I and broken. }
<br />r r When asked why it had taken two
<br />weeks to repair such a seemingly costly
<br />i. break. McAllister said his crew had been
<br />Y e i into "that area" four times in the past
<br />i six weeks. bur. Dunn's particular pipe
<br />e was apparently not one of those visited.
<br />4 McAllister told the Press -Journal he
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<br />had received a call from DeSando on the
<br />13th of March and said that he sent a
<br />crew out the following day to repair the
<br />Y : spot,
<br />To this, Dunn responded, "Noway.".
<br />On the evening of :%larch 2l, a utility
<br />crew arrived at the Dunn residence and {
<br />repaired the line. it
<br />q� "Water is money to us," McAllister
<br />told the Press -Journal. "We try to get
<br />' these things repaired as soon as 1
<br />possible,"
<br />From figures obtaim-d from a city
<br />• water plant spokesman, the rough
<br />I estimate of water 1„ss from Dunn's
<br />broken line over the 1%o, eek period
<br />conics to a whopping 4u11.t•fu gallons. l
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