Water Works pulls out damaged pump, running on backup

Crews with Berkeley Springs Water Works helped a crane navigate a broken water pump and its components out the roof of the treatment plant building on Wilkes Street last Friday morning, April 19.

Removal of the pump and its attached casing was necessary to get the machinery in the hands of a Hagerstown company that will rebuild it and return it to service.

Chief Water Operator Rick Mayhew said the main pump that pushes treated…