This story is about as mundane, about as boring, about as sterile a story as one could find to post, but it's the headline story in today's Williston Herald on-line.
The county commissioners approved a new commercial water depot for water trucks taking water for fracking.
It's hard to believe but all this time, there was but one such tap in Williston, until now (to the best of my knowledge), and trucks lined up, I assume for hours, to get their 7,500 gallons of fresh water. Folks complain about infrastructure and even to make relatively small improvements seems to be a challenge. That was one of the first things I noticed when I visited Williston last summer: that single water tap.
Well, whatever, it looks about ready to change.
[Update: see comments below. I was wrong. There are many water depots in / around Williston. I was just aware of the one public water depot; never realized there were so many private depots. But it makes sense. Thanks to "Rusty" for setting the record straight. It's funny that wasn't mentioned in the article; I wonder why this "new" depot is getting so much attention? No doubt there are folks worried about new competition.]
