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Show Kentucky Town Hunts Adequate Water Supply HARRODSBURG, Ky. Like many small towns across the nation who have experienced unusual growth in the past several years, the community com-munity of Harrodsburg is faced with the problem of providing adequate utilities for its new citizens. Located in a rich agricultural section sec-tion of Kentucky, also an expanding Industrial section, the community Is without an adequate water supply. And like other small towns, the problem prob-lem of financing is a big one. The community's present pumping plant is located on the Salt river and was completed in 1922. Average daily use of water in the town has jumped to more than 300,000 gallons, gal-lons, double that of 1940. In the event of a dry season, like that of the summer of 1950, the town would face a dangerous water shortage, officials report. The Chamber of Commerce has proposed a new pumping station on Herrington Lake, but an estimated $350,000 to $397,000 would be needed to build the system. |