Middleburg staff warn of tight water supplies, outline well repairs and grant request

Middleburg public works staff told the Town Council that the town’s groundwater supplies remain strained and described near-term fixes and grant requests to shore up capacity.

The update by water operations staff said average finished water production for the reporting period was about 37,000 gallons per day (roughly 4.2 million gallons for the month) and that the system continues to meet required sampling and monitoring. Staff emphasized the system has not returned to its pre-leak conditions: transducer monitoring shows some wells remain lower than before the leak and well levels have not tracked directly with recent rainfall.

“We got our transducers in the wells, and we’re keeping an eye on those,” Public Works staff member Vince said. He described that well-level plots show the water column moving close to the transducer repeatedly and noted that well 4 has been ‘‘acting up’’ since the leak. Vince described an upcoming replacement of well 4’s standpipe and pump, a plan to drop the pump from about 350 feet to roughly 500 feet, and a video inspection of the casing during work to…