BEAVER — A part of the rainiest corner of the country is hard up for water.
The Lake Pleasant Mobile Home and RV Park has had to restrict water since late last week, allowing residents to turn on their taps for only three hours a day in three shifts.
The shifts were reduced to 30 minutes Wednesday.
Now a Fire District 6 truck is set to haul water from Forks and pump it into the park’s tanks while the system’s well recovers from an underground drought.
Sixty to 70 people live in the park at 200021 U.S. Highway 101 eight miles north of Forks.
Others live in a neighborhood near the park. All are on individual wells that often pump only air.
Forks itself isn’t threatened by drought, but rainfall hasn’t been what West Enders are accustomed to.
The region that normally gets 10 feet of rain each year has a paltry 6 feet so far in 2006.
