Water service returns for Cotton Plant after wiring replaced

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     (AP) – The Delta Regional Authority says it supplied $37,000

to Cotton Plant to restart the community’s water system.

     Repairs completed on Monday restored electrical power to the system, which was

damaged by a fire last month.

     Since the Jan. 9 blaze, only parts of the water system have been working with

temporary help from a generator. Money supplied by the Delta Regional Authority

was used to pay for the replacement of older equipment and the installation of

new wiring.

     Mayor Willard Ryland thanked the Arkansas Rural Water Association for use of

the generator until the system could be updated for the town of 631 people.

     The DRA is a federal-state partnership set up by Congress to aid economic

development in 252 counties and parishes in the Mississippi River Valley.




   

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