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Dry no more . . . The Vineyards gets water

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ITS A GUSHER -- Phil Valdez, 52, a supervisor with the City of Anderson's Public Works Department, tests the pressure and volume of water available for firefighting in an undeveloped portion of The Vineyards subdivision.

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ITS A GUSHER -- Phil Valdez, 52, a supervisor with the City of Anderson's Public Works Department, tests the pressure and volume of water available for firefighting in an undeveloped portion of The Vineyards subdivision.

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  • ITS A GUSHER -- Phil Valdez, 52, a supervisor with the City of Anderson's Public Works Department, tests the pressure and volume of water available for firefighting in an undeveloped portion of The Vineyards subdivision.
  • Plasterers finish up one of 10 houses left unfinished when The Vineyards was discovered to have inadequate water supply to fight fires or flush toilets. A construction well that had supplied a trickle of water to the subdivision has been replaced recently with a pumping substation and a direct tie-in to the City of Anderson's water treatment plant.
  • Anderson Public Works Director Jeff Kiser inspects a pump station pressure guage following fireflow tests in The Vineyards subdivision last week. Adequate water supplies in the subdivision mean construction and sales of homes can resume as soon as market conditions allow.
  • More houses await completion in The Vineyards now that an adequate water supply has been connected to the subdivision's network of pipes that had previously been supplied, albeit inadequately, from a construction well.

Completion of a $1 million pumping substation last week will allow construction and sales of houses to continue at The Vineyards subdivision southwest of Anderson.

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