11 ordspråk av Steve Massey
Steve Massey
(People need to) stop irrigating their lawns. This time in the winter, you don't need to be watering the ground around your home but every couple of weeks.
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Don't water all the grass. Just soak around the tree, foundation.
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In three months, the Lavon dropped 10 feet this time. But, if the drought continues, we could go down three feet in a few weeks.
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It's really difficult to say (if we'll hit Stage 4), but the rainfall that will keep us from going to Stage 4 has not happened yet. The lake didn't go up very much from the rain we had last weekend.
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Our feeling is that I want to warn people before I do it [raise water rates]. It's just good customer service.
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The purpose of the delegation of enforcement authority to the community service director is to affect a change in behavior. We're trying to make sure there's enough money to go around, not make money for the city.
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The way the water district has put it, if we do not see a significant improvement in the rainfall, we do expect to hit stage four.
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We could use that lake dry if we're not careful.
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We gave out $75,000 last year in rebates. We budgeted $10,000 more this year.
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We're anxious for them not to do that at [stages] 3 or 4. When we know Stage 3 is imminent. We want to schedule the civic workshop. Our citizens start to feel pain at Stage 3, when they can't wash their car and have to restrict water, and they have to have a venue to discuss it with city staff.
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We're asking for voluntarily conservation of water and to not plant any new landscaping until the drought passes.
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