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Missing water remains a mystery
If solved, income from lost water would put municipal water system in the black, mayor said by STEVE MANN
STOKESDALE – The Town of Stokesdale is looking for water that can’t be accounted for and the revenue lost.
Missing is 16 percent of the water purchased from Winston-Salem – an average of 17,000 gallons daily, about 6,248,800 gallons annually. That’s almost $37,000 a year in lost revenue.
dale Fire Department and attended by firefighters, members of Stokesdale Fire District’s board of directors, fire district commissioners, the Stokesdale Town Council and several citizens.
“That money would make us break even,” Mayor Randy Braswell said about the town’s water system. “That 16 percent is what our town is after.”
Braswell was joined by Marty Wilson, a management assistance specialist with the nonprofit North Carolina Rural Water Association. It was a meeting almost seven months in the making.
Braswell’s remarks came during a March 16 meeting held at the Stokes-
During the Aug. 11 town coun-
Temple for worship, cultural events planned for Alcorn Road by PATTI STOKES OAK RIDGE – If all goes as members of Triad Hindu Temple hope, they will purchase 8.9 acres off Alcorn Road in Oak Ridge this June and move forward with plans to build a temple on the site. In a later phase, a concert/cultural hall as well as a kitchen for serving food at special events will be added. Summerfield resident Chander Anand is a member of Triad Hindu Temple’s board of directors. He said he and other members of the Temple, which is currently located on Huffine Mill Road in McLeansville, have been looking for a new location that is more central to the Triad and also close to major highways. The existing temple in McLeansville came about over two decades ago, | This 8.9-acre site on Alcorn Road in Oak Ridge may be the future home to Triad Hindu Temple.
Photo by Patti Stokes/NWO
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cil meeting a proposal to ask the fire district to pay for water was discussed. Braswell said efforts to schedule a meet-
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