VALLEY MILLS, Texas (KXXV) — "Is your water fixed permanently?" asked 25 News reporter, Chantale Belafanti.
"No, it's not," said SRC customer, Jennifer Williams.
While the water in Valley Mills is running now, the issue isn't fixed for good.
"We have a band-aid, and as far as I understand, SRC still owns it," Williams said.
SRC customer and Valley Mills resident Jennifer Williams says although Top Hand Cowboy Church paid $15,000 to get their water back on, that's still not enough to make sure the water continues to flow from the tap.
"Now we're paying the bill in the future for the repairs that need to be done," Williams said.
"The bill is anywhere around $20,000 — it came down to $327 per member."
Williams says of that $20,000, the community paid $13,000 — leaving a $7,000 balance.
25 News reached out to Top Hand Cowboy Church, who helped raise most of the money to pay the outstanding debt.
Moving forward, the church said it will now wait and see how things progress before possibly donating more money.
For now, the boil water notice in this area is no more — Williams says there are still issues with the well.
"From what I understand, they want to do a scope, and they want to see what repairs need to be done so we can fix it and have it fixed," she said.
But for all the work Williams is doing to help others pay their outstanding bills, she still lives in fear of having her water cut off because she paid her neighbor's past due balances before paying her own.
"I recently received a call from SRC Water saying that I have a past due balance of $430 and wanting to know how I was going to take care of that," Williams said.
"That they've hired a new well operator, and they're gonna start doing shut-offs around here and going and shutting off Water if people haven't paid their bill."
