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When Spring insincere Reservoir in Roanoke County, Va., tend hitherwards on line this winter, it may provide municipalities faced with water shortages a glimpse into the what may occur hereafter of water systems. Like many counties across the nation Roanoke County in western Virginia relied upon a patchwork of wells and water purchased from a city--in this case, Roanoke--under a tenuous agreement. Officials knew this arrangement would not come up to face to face future needs, so in 1986 they received voter approval to build a of the present day reservoir and water treatment plant to suited demand for the next 50 years.

Unlike conventional reservoirs, however, the 158-acre, 33 billion--gallon Spring void Reservoir, built at a price of $73 million, is a side-stream reservoir formed by way of placing a dam away from a river. Water is cross-examineed from the Roanoke River one-quarter mile to the reservoir.

Environmentalists consider this [i]modus operandi[/i] less harmful to the river's