Public service districts struggle after floods tear up infrastructure

Since she last had running water, Nancy Taylor, of Gauley Bridge, has driven around two miles to an unmarked pipe spilling water on the side of the road five times.

That’s where the retired school teacher has filled the two five-gallon jugs, or — once the five-gallon jugs got too heavy — the eleven single gallon jugs, that have been her main source of fresh water for the past 16 days.

“I was determined not to take water from the people whose houses are messed up,” Taylor said.

Taylor’s home, which sits on the bank of the New River, wasn’t damaged in the floods. Her basement flooded in the storm, but only the yearbooks she kept from her years as an art teacher were damaged.

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