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Show Escalante Faces Disaster As Zero Cold Cut Water Main You never miss the water till the well runs dry, and the people at Escalante are missing it terribly these days with their town water main frozen solid, and according to some reports, twenty miles of it "busted". Recent cold nights caused the valve on the main, leading from springs near Posey Lake to freeze solid, backing up the water in the main where . constant flow was expected to keep it from freezing. The entire town had been put on short water rations, only culinary water being hauled in and that has to be boiled. No one is allowed a bath. Many heating plants have had to be turned off because water coils, now empty of water, lead the through heating units. |