Water Reservoir Levels Recovered, Reduced Supply Continues

Because of our community’s hard work aggressively reducing water use over the past 48 hours, the City’s reservoirs have successfully refilled to adequate levels. We sincerely thank all Islanders for their diligence and help during this time.

Please continue conserving water to ensure we can maintain these levels. While we collectively curtailed enough water use to allow the reservoirs to recover from last weekend’s unprecedented demand, we need to ensure water demand does not once again overwhelm incoming supply while we are still operating on the backup supply line.

You’re likely ready to catch up on laundry, water thirsty plants, or take a real shower. Good news: it’s now safe to do so. However, please begin using additional water judiciously and ensure you’re following conservation steps outlined under the Voluntary Water Conservation stage:

• Water plants/yards no more than three times per week:
  • ODD numbered addresses water on Sun/Wed/Fri
  • EVEN numbered addresses water on Tues/Thurs/Sat
• Water early (before 10:00am) or late (after 8:00pm) in the day to reduce evaporation
• Let your lawn go dormant (brown)
• Postpone new planting until the fall when rain provides plenty of water for plant establishment
• Minimize vehicle washing
• Minimize refilling swimming pools and hot tubs
• Reduce shower time by two minutes
• Turn off water features, such as fountains

City staff are closely monitoring water use and reservoir levels. If water use once again begins to significantly exceed demand and reservoir levels drop, we will need to return to emergency water restrictions. We will continue providing updates on the status of our water system and you can monitor the City’s Water Usage Dashboard for real-time statistics.