Water budget for at Hoosier horse camps evaporating by funds diverted to firefighting

The horse camps in the national forest are all primitive, with pit toilets and no running water. Campers always have had to supply water for themselves, but there are tanks filled with water that the Forest Service trucks in. Those tanks were filled last week, according to Stacy Duke, district recreation and wilderness manager with the Hoosier National Forest. There is now no money left to refill them.

“It would take quadruple the use of what we usually get on a Labor Day weekend” to have the tanks run dry, Duke said. She said the shortage of water may become more of an issue in the next couple of weeks if the camps get a lot of use and the weather continues to be hot and humid.