The Town of Goldsby had to impose a mandatory water rationing for one day a week on outside watering last summer. Mayor Mike Herrin said as bad as things were this summer, you have to expect them to be bad next summer, but the Town is steadily working towards a solution.
Herrin said the Town is working on a fix that will provide more water to their water storage towers in the west and south of the community. They just completed a 12” water line from State Highway 9 to W. Chestnut Road. Herrin said previously the Town only had an 8” line to the tower from there, but they just completed the 12” line from there to the tower, and a 12” line going east along Center Road to Main Street (State Highway 74) to feed the commercial development in the area.
A second project they intend to do is a new 12” line across the airport going approximately 3.5 miles north and west to help feed the west water tower, which is where the largest amount of Goldsby’s growth is right now. Herrin said the northwest part of town uses a significant amount of water compared to the south side.
