Fixing leaks

With the recent leak on the town’s waterline running from Yellowstone Avenue north through the Ellis Mobile Home Park, Public Works Director Cory Allison speaks about why the line is still breaking and what the town is planning to do.

Allison says that approximately 80% of the municipal water lines are replaced at this time with several small areas – “Just 100 feet here, 200 feet here, a block there” – have yet to be upgraded. This particular part of the line is among those sections.

These small sections of line to be replaced, according to Allison, are cost prohibitive to contractors to repla...