[CPEO-MEF] WATER: Navy's Tumon-Maui Well, Guam

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Dormant Tumon well to be repaired: Navy: Additional 1.3M gallons to  
meet buildup demand

Brett Kelman
Pacific Daily News (GU)
May. 15, 2011

The Navy is moving ahead with a plan to rehabilitate the Tumon-Maui  
Well, an unusual sideways facility that may allow the Guam Waterworks  
Authority to buy more military water when buildup population raises  
demand.

A restored Tumon-Maui Well would produce about 1.3 million gallons  
per day -- or 900 gallons per minute -- in the middle of Guam, "where  
demand from workforce housing and induced growth is expected to be  
concentrated," according to an online Navy memo about the project.

If the Tumon-Maui Well is brought back to life, it would become the  
island's most productive well and the third biggest water producer on  
Guam -- behind only GWA's Ugum Water Treatment Plant and Navy's Fena  
Reservoir.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.guampdn.com/article/20110516/NEWS01/105160308

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