Water District 11 searches for million gallon leak

Water District 11 searches for million gallon leak
Water District 11 searches for million gallon leak

Crews are tracing along the Bone Creek District 11 Wholesale Water Districts system searching for a water leak. The district is a major supplier of water for Columbus, West Mineral and Weir in Cherokee County.

For the past seven days the system has been losing 100,000 gallons of water from a ten-inch pipe somewhere in the 75-mile transmission system. According to District 11 manager Jay Russell, th…