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Several areas in the northern part of
Wake Forest have low water pressure, but
there is a plan and a fall-back plan to
increase the pressure.
Raleigh Public Utilities
Director Dale Crisp said Wednesday the
city is installing a 24-inch water
transmission line from the E.M. Johnson
Water Treatment Plant on Falls of the
Neuse Road to the new 1-million-gallon
elevated tank on Falls near Old N.C. 98.
One plan is to build another
water line from the tank to an existing
line that would interconnect with the
northern half of town.
But, Crisp said, “We think
we can create a new elevation zone
without installing that line.” An
elevation zone, described in feet above
mean sea level, is where a utility has
the ability to provide water pressure in
an acceptable range. Right now there is,
and has not been, enough pressure inside
the lines to deliver water to the
affected homes in an acceptable range.
That second plan, which will
be tried first, will complete a
connection from the Raleigh system in
Wakefield at Capital Boulevard. “It will
mean switching some valves and
completing a short section of
distribution line,” Crisp said.
Crisp said Wake Forest,
before merger, had plans to build an
elevated tank to improve the pressure in
the northern area, but “that got rolled
up” in the merger talks and plans.
Before the elevated tank on Falls was
built, the town had also nearly
completed the connection to Wakefield
before learning there was not sufficient
pressure in Wakefield to serve Wake
Forest customers. |
