A.D. Ibarra

-Eagle Pass

Jorge Barrera, Director of Eagle Pass Water Works, informed The News Gram of a two-pronged project which stems from an $8.2 million grant which will greatly improve the system by which Eagle Pass water users receive the life-giving resource.

The first, Barrera said, will be the installation of a new type of radio read meter which will be able to be read by remote control in a drive-by setting.

The new technology is the latest trend in municipal water operation equipment which will vastly modernize our existing system.

The other measure will be the design, planning and changing out of the cast iron pipelines underneath our city and to replace them with the more practical, longer-lasting PVC type pipes which will be installed in phases this year.

The cast iron pipes, which have been in place for almost a hundred years have served their purpose and will be replaced by the more practical PVC pipe as the EPWW System have been called upon to repair broken pipelines which both run at an expensive rate and force workers to break into paved roads to access the broken lines.