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Comments (1)I read something like this once in regards to Citrus bloom with the same findings....See MoreDrought/Water restrictions...what's best
Comments (6)I put in a budget irrigation system about 15 years ago, connecting the lines to the faucets on each side of the house. The PSI is very high in some parts of SA. Mine was 140, so I had to use pressure reduction devices. If you call SAWS, they can tell you the exact PSI at your address. Home Depot and Lowe's should have an abundance of free instructional litterature in their irrigation sections. Once you figure out what you need, the reps at Toro, Rainbird, etc. will help you design the system. (They helped me, anyway.) The hard part is the trenching, and you will certainly want to have SAWS, CPS, etc. come out and mark the location of their underground lines. Splicing the pipe and whatnot isn't much more difficult than tinker toys. There are some legal pitfalls involved here (mandatory backflow preventers, etc.), so you will need to be thorough in your research....See MoreOKC Metro Area Watering Restrictions
Comments (7)Leslie, I heard about Tom Steed but didn't realize the pipeline wasn't repaired yet. Moni, I know how to conserve as well and do a lot of it, including catching as much rainwater as possible and using it for watering. Of course, to catch rainwater, there actually has to be rain falling from the skies. It does bother me that the lakes are as low as they are in winter. We really need good, heavy spring rains to refill them and I am not sure that's gonna happen. It will be awful if spring rainfall stays below average and we don't get the extra rain needed to fill up the reservoirs before summer arrives. The big issue in summer won't even be just how much people are or aren't using. It is that the heat evaporates so much moisture from the reservoirs themselves and there's nothing you can do to prevent that water from evaporating. Everyone could have stringent watering restrictions and still the lake levels would drop and drop and drop due to evaporation. For those of us whose water co-ops rely on well water, the town of Wapanucka's recent experience should make us wonder how long we can pump out groundwater before the wells run dry. Wapanucka's well ran dry last week, leaving the town without a source of water. For a few days they had to close businesses and school, haul in drinking water, etc. while the city ran a water line to tie into another water system that serves Atoka. They've had water issues in the past, likely because the water level underground was falling lower than the depth of their wells, but now their wells are completely dry. A lot of rain will have to fall to recharge the aquifer their well draws from. If this weather continues to be as dry in 2013 as it was in 2011 and 2012, more and more city, county or private water systems undoubtedly will be in trouble like Wapanucka is now. You cannot pump water out of the ground if there's no water there. Dawn...See MoreWater restrictions
Comments (4)I'm guessing that they don't lift the Phase II restrictions until something happens....and what that something would be would depend on their water source. If it is ground water, they may wait until the aquifer is back to a certain depth before removing the restrictions. If it is a reservoir, it may be the same type of thing....that the reservoir has to reach a certain depth of impounded water before they lift restrictions. I cannot complain about our water co-op. I've seen people's plans to move here and build a house be put on hold because the water co-op was not accepting new customers until they could drill a new well and increase their capacity....and that period lasted a couple of years. I appreciate belonging to a water co-op that will not accept more customers than its' system can handle. The last couple of folks who tried to have wells drilled in our neighborhood came up with nothing but dry holes (and they had an extremely knowledgeable water well driller who has been in that line of work here his whole life---if he can't find the water, it isn't there to be found), so I think the aquifer here has dropped a lot lower than it used to be. When our springs stopped running and our spring-fed pond dried up, I knew that things were changing here in terms of the depth of the ground water. It is hard now to remember that for years and years our pond never dried up and had a healthy fish population. Not only does the pond not have fish in it any more, it stays dry 9 or 10 months out of the year. The stupid fishing dock looks ridiculous sitting there with no water for most of the year....I want to tear it down and reuse that expensive pressure-treated lumber for something else because I don't think we'll ever have enough water to have a fishing pond again....See Moregardengal48 (PNW Z8/9)
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