
{"id":1863,"date":"2008-02-14T07:41:41","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T15:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/2008\/02\/14\/owasa-to-consider-tighter-restrictions\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T07:41:41","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T15:41:41","slug":"owasa-to-consider-tighter-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2008\/02\/14\/owasa-to-consider-tighter-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"OWASA to consider tighter restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Jack Carley<\/strong><br \/>\nStaff Writer<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Tonight (Thursday) the OWASA board of directors will discuss a report calling for stage three water restrictions, which include surcharges, by mid-March if the area does not see more rain by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>For homes, surcharges would multiply the cost of water depending on how much is used. For non-residential customers, the surcharge is an extra 25 percent.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Stage three restrictions also prevent almost all outdoor uses of OWASA water except for some construction purposes and a little bit of hand-watering three days a week. Service is cut off if more than 600 gallons are used by a household in a day.<\/p>\n<p>The report says that the restrictions themselves will have a limited effect but that surcharges are intended to be a strong signal to customers to reduce demand. <\/p>\n<p>The report, prepared by OWASA staff, recommends that the utility\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s board declare a stage three water shortage on Feb. 28 if reservoir levels do not reach 45 percent full by the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Reservoirs are currently about 39 percent full and, without more rain, hold enough water for about six months.<\/p>\n<p>Reaching 45 percent capacity would require about three to five more inches in the next two weeks, while weather forecasts predict below-average rainfall through spring.<\/p>\n<p>OWASA suggests that customers try to reduce demand to 35 gallons per person, per day.<\/p>\n<p>Public comment is encouraged at the meeting, which will be held at 8 p.m. tonight at the OWASA Administration Building at 400 Jones Ferry Rd.<\/p>\n<p>The full report contains further details and can be found online at <a href=\"http:\/\/owasa.org\/agenda\/agendameetings.asp\">owasa.org\/agenda\/agendameetings.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Jack Carley Staff Writer Tonight (Thursday) the OWASA board of directors will discuss a report calling for stage three water restrictions, which include surcharges, by mid-March if the area does not see more rain by the end of the month. For homes, surcharges would multiply the cost of water depending on how much is&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-land-and-table"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863","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=1863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}