What??? Rainy Forks cuts back on water use

FORKS — Dry weather producing lower-than-normal rainfall is not sparing one of the rainiest towns in the nation.

The city is requesting that its residents cut back on its water use due to under-performing wells.

Public Works Director Dave Zellar said that the city’s water wells are about 30 percent below capacity because of the dry summer.

The city has four wells, but uses two at any time.

It began to cut back on how much water it extracts from the two wells it is currently using last Friday by about 500 gallons per minute, or about 30 percent, he said.

Zellar said that will end once the town gets about two weeks of normal rainfall, meaning about 1-2 inches of rain per day.

The town often gets about 120 inches of rain per year.

Forks had received about 42 inches of rain as of Thursday. In a normal year the rainfall should have totaled about 66 inches.

Forks’ gloomy, rain-filled skies was the main reason author Stephanie Meyer picked the town as the location of her best-selling “Twilight” teen-vampire romance series of books.

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Reporter Tom Callis can be reached at 360-417-3532 or at tom.callis@peninsuladailynews.com.

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