SEVERAL ROOMS AND A HOLDING CELL AT APD'S PRISONER TRANSPORT CENTER IN DOWNTOWN ALBUQUERQUE ARE NO LONGER FILLED TO THE BRIM WITH BOTTLED WATER FOR WATER-CHALLENGED MAGDALENA RESIDENTS. APD CADETS LOADED ALL THE DONATED BOTTLED WATER INTO TRUCKS OUTSIDE THE PRISONER TRANSPORT CENTER DOWNTOWN AT 4TH AND ROMA FRIDAY MORNING. THE BOTTLES OF WATER WERE COLLECTED THIS WEEK IN APD'S WATER DRIVE TO HELP THE SOUTH-CENTRAL NEW MEXICO COMMUNITY WHOSE WELL RAN DRY AND COLLAPSED EARLY THIS MONTH.
IN ADDITION TO ALL THE BOTTLED WATER DONATED BY ALBUQUERQUE RESIDENTS, MAGDALENA'S GETTING A 6-THOUSAND GALLON TANKER OF POTABLE WATER FROM THE ALBUQUERQUE BERNALILLO COUNTY WATER UTILITY AUTHORITY.
ABOUT A THOUSAND MAGDALENA RESIDENTS AND SEVERAL BUSINESSES HAVE BEEN COPING WITHOUT WATER. AN OLDER WELL HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY PUT INTO SERVICE.
