VIDALIA — The Town of Ridgecrest will soon be tied into the Ferriday water system in hopes of resolving its years old issue of unusable, brown tinted water.
During a regularly scheduled meeting of the Concordia Parish Police Jury on Monday, jury president Joseph Parker Sr. invited the public to attend a ground breaking ceremony Nov. 23 at 10 a.m. at Ridgecrest ballpark, where the town will celebrate its joining to Ferriday’s water system to bypass is own water plant that has been worn down with age.
The town’s residents have shared their experiences with poor quality water on social media and with town and parish officials on several occasions and complained of brown water that is unfit for drinking, cooking or for taking care of personal hygiene.
Residents have had to turn to bottled water for cooking, drinking and brushing their teeth.
In 2019, the police jury declared a local State of Emergency so they could present town residents with tanks of water they could use in place of their own tap water.
Last year, the town received nearly $1 million from Louisiana Community Development Block Grant to lay new pipes in order to tie in to the Ferriday water system as well as a new ground storage tank, radio-controlled water meters and installing a handicap bathroom in city hall.
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