By Rusty Nixon Correspondent
PLYMOUTH — While many around the country have become more concerned about the quality of the water in their communities, Plymouth residents have another reason to be happy they call the town home.
“We’re really lucky,” said Water Department Superintendent Jeff Yeazel. “We’re sitting on top of this huge aquifer. Because all of our water comes out of a deep well system we don’t have those same problems.”

Yeazel explains that much of the problem other cities experience with contaminants such as pharmaceuticals is caused by the source of the drinking water for the area.
“A lot of the problems they experience are with run off from landfills and the like,” said Yeazel. “They’re drawing their drinking water from ground water sources. For example in Chicago they get their water from the Great Lakes. Anything that goes in there ends up in the drinking water.”
The city’s drinking water continues to meet or exceed every test standard for quality. Yeazel’s only real contamination problem is a natural one.
“The only real battle I have is with iron,” he said. “That’s why the water is sometimes brown and people get upset with me. I’ll take that over the man-made contaminants anytime. The worst that happens with iron is that people yell at me and they feel better because they get it off their chest, but it’s something that I can fix.”
Plymouth’s deep well system has other advantages as well.
“When other people are worried about drought, like they’ve had in some parts of the country, our situation is nice,” he said. “We’re fortunate that we’re sitting on top of a huge aquifer.
“A lot of people are mad with all the rain and snow we’ve been having but for me that’s pennies from heaven. That’s all going to find its way down into that aquifer.”