Carlsbad Caverns park plans work on water pipeline

Published April 29, 2013 9:31am ET



CARLSBAD CAVERNS NATIONAL PARK, N.M. (AP) — Park officials say a pipeline that stretches more than a mile to provide Carlsbad Caverns National Park with drinking water needs to be replaced.

Officials say some sections of the pipeline were damaged by freezing temperatures. A wildfire also destroyed much of the line’s insulation along with many of the wooden blocks used to support it.

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