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Old 07-03-2012, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Madison, AL
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Today, perusing the Huntsville Times online, I find that I am on mandatory water restrictions. If my sprinklers came on tomorrow morning I could get fined $50. How did they notify us? Can they put in restrictions without telling customers directly and fine us? I don't watch local news and I only get the Sunday paper (which I read just for the ads) so I expect them to either use email, snail mail, or reverse 911 if they need to inform me of restrictions. Am I being unreasonable?

For the rest of you in the Water District, how did you find out?

Marc
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Old 07-04-2012, 07:37 AM
 
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On the news.

First offense is a warning. They have people patrolling and if they see water they'll attempt to contact you and leave a letter if no one is home.

After the first offense and warning is when the fines start.

We are right at a foot below normal rainfall for the year. Some local towns are nearly out of water.

I'm surprised the restrictions didn't come earlier.
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Old 07-04-2012, 07:38 AM
 
Location: HSV
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I went to their website to find out.
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Old 07-04-2012, 09:28 AM
 
Location: Madison, AL
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I went to their website to find out.
Its not a website I check every week. Now, if they let you pay your bill for free on their website I would visit at least once a month.

I can't figure out why they chose Mon/Wed and Tue/Thu for the days we are allowed. Mon/Thu and Tue/Fri would mean I don't have to go five days in between watering of lawn and shrubs.

Marc
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Old 07-06-2012, 07:25 AM
 
Location: AL for now
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Unhappy Totally agree!

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Its not a website I check every week. Now, if they let you pay your bill for free on their website I would visit at least once a month.

I can't figure out why they chose Mon/Wed and Tue/Thu for the days we are allowed. Mon/Thu and Tue/Fri would mean I don't have to go five days in between watering of lawn and shrubs.

Marc
My husband heard about the restrictions on the radio Monday morning. I searched al.com and found nothing at all about it on Monday. Even my "breaking news" email from them had zilch. I finally found confirmation on the Harvest-Monrovia water district website, but I never would have looked there if he hadn't alerted me about the restrictions.

I think that if they had a more reasonable watering schedule as you suggested, compliance would be more assured. Some of us have just recently completed our post-tornado re-landscaping and have new plantings without deep roots yet.
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Old 07-06-2012, 11:56 PM
 
Location: USA
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Today, perusing the Huntsville Times online, I find that I am on mandatory water restrictions. If my sprinklers came on tomorrow morning I could get fined $50. How did they notify us? Can they put in restrictions without telling customers directly and fine us? I don't watch local news and I only get the Sunday paper (which I read just for the ads) so I expect them to either use email, snail mail, or reverse 911 if they need to inform me of restrictions. Am I being unreasonable?

For the rest of you in the Water District, how did you find out?

Marc
I found out from a friend of mine, because I do not watch much television. Interesting thing is half of his neighborhood was washing their cars when I went to visit him.
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