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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Fires and heavy rains have contaminated the single water source for about 12-hundred residents of the Navajo Nation in Utah's far southeastern corner.
The Navajo Mountain spring, has been unusable for nearly three weeks.
San Juan County Commissioner Bruce Adams says ash from fires and other debris has filled the spring and clogged filters at a treatment plant that provides water to residents.
That's caused an immediate water shortage.
To solve the problem, he says the county has trucked in four tankers of fresh water and four semitrailers of bottled water.
But he says contamination is a recurring problem with the Navajo Mountain spring.
An eight-(M)million dollar pipeline is being proposed to solve the problem permanently.
The pipeline would bring water to homes from the Inscription House spring about 40-miles south on the Navajo National Monument in Arizona.
State and local officials are still studying the issue.
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Information from: The Deseret News, http://www.deseretnews.com
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