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Patch work

When Moorcroft's Public Works Director Cory Allison and his crew noticed a loss of pressure in the Madison water line Wednesday morning, crewmen traveled along the pipeline and soon discovered water on the ground about halfway between town and the Madison well, east of Wind Creek Road, indicating a leak in the line.

Allison called Travis Dewey, owner of Tri-City Excavation Inc. in Carlile, WY.

"They dug it up and figured out what was wrong Wednesday afternoon and we had it going by noon on Thursday," Allison says.

Three Tri-City crewmen worked with two of Moorcroft's public workmen shutting li...