Three days of below freezing temperatures over the Christmas weekend wasn’t good for people or animals and it certainly wasn’t good for water pipes. It took until Monday and Tuesday, as temperatures rose and ruptured pipes thawed, for the real damaging impact to be realized. Not only were homeowners’ and businesses’ lines affected but water system lines, too, from municipal systems to smaller rural systems. Grove Hill’s water levels were so critically low Tuesday that water was pumped from the Mid- Central system to Grove Hill through a Grove Hill fire truck at a connection point on Highway 43 near...

Article Link