By Patric Hedlund, TME

“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” Winston Churchill said. Our five year drought brought a serious crisis to this region.

When Lake of the Woods’ wells went virtually dry in 2012, emergency funds suddenly became available from state and federal sources.

LOW’s water board exhausted all possible efforts to solve…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

This pile of corroded, leaking and undersized pipes was pulled out of an area being updated in Frazier Park. There are still many others to be replaced, along with new wells and updated meters.

This corroded and leaking water pipe is like many that still need to be replaced in the FPPUD system.

But it will be too expensive to do that without grants. Becoming partners with Lake of the Woods makes Frazier Park eligible for 100% grants rather than taking on debt to upgrade the FPPUD system.

Waiting may not be an option. The state money may be gone if the request for funding is
not submitted in 2016.

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This is part of the February 26, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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