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Haywood County paper plant partially closing over drought

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Published: August 20, 2008

CANTON - The largest employer in Haywood County is partially shutting down this week because a drought has cut water available for the paper plant.

Blue Ridge Paper Products began the partial shutdown Sunday.

Pat Smathers, the mayor of Canton, said that the plant's own reservoir is nearly depleted. The plant uses the reservoir to supplement water it takes from the Pigeon River.

The mill employs about 1,300 people in Canton and at another plant in Waynesville.

Smathers said that plant officials told him that the partial shutdown would last through this week.

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