
{"id":1727,"date":"2008-01-24T07:42:42","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:42:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/01\/24\/owasa-to-hold-water-supply-forum\/"},"modified":"2008-01-24T07:42:42","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T15:42:42","slug":"owasa-to-hold-water-supply-forum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/01\/24\/owasa-to-hold-water-supply-forum\/","title":{"rendered":"OWASA to hold water supply forum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/lake012408resized.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/lake012408resized.jpg\" alt=\"Closed for the winter, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quiet around Univerity Lake these days. Though not nearly as drawn down as Cane Creek Reservoir, Assistant Lake Warden Robert Glosson says \u00e2\u20ac\u0153you could harvest a lot of hay around here.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Photo by Kirk Ross.\" align=\"left\" height=\"119\" width=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will hold a public forum tonight (Thursday) regarding \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The State of Our Local Water Supply,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to provide information and receive customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 questions and feedback.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will be held at 7 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Town Hall and will be televised live on local cable channel 18.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will cover local water supply and demand and weather forecasts for coming months along with the short and long-term financial implications and the options, costs and timetable for addressing the worst-case drought scenario.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->At the forum there will also be a review of proposed changes in OWASA\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s water conservation standards and ordinances to further limit outdoor irrigation in Stage Two and Stage Three water shortages.<br \/>\nStage Two restrictions are now in effect. The proposed changes would generally prohibit irrigation with hand-held hoses, soaker hoses, drip irrigation and micro-spray systems in Stage Two and prohibit all irrigation with OWASA drinking water in Stage Three. Stage Three restrictions have previously allowed outdoor watering with hand-carried watering cans or buckets.<\/p>\n<p>Under the changes, Stage Two restrictions would mandate that OWASA-supplied potable water could only be used outdoors for irrigation purposes only by hand-carried watering cans or buckets, limited to a maximum of one-half inch of water applied to plant material in any given week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Orange Water and Sewer Authority will hold a public forum tonight (Thursday) regarding \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The State of Our Local Water Supply,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to provide information and receive customers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 questions and feedback. The forum will be held at 7 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Town Hall and will be televised live on local cable channel 18. The&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}