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I should have known this was coming now that I finally purchased a rain barrel!
Falls Lake is currently 74% full. With the rain we are expecting tomorrow and later next week I imagine we may get to 90% by early april!
I'm still happy I have the rain barrel, even if they start allowing hand watering again.
"The City Council voted Tuesday to end Stage 2 water restrictions once Falls Lake reaches 90 percent of its normal level and to allow limited outdoor watering if the lake reaches its capacity."
Mommiewrites, the garbage disposal decision doesn't have anything to do with water restrictions. It was about food and grease blockages in the sewer lines. So that's a whole other subject.
Congrats to Raleigh water customers! Here's hoping that Durham will chose to loosen its watering rules when the council meets on Thursday.
let it rain, let it rain, let it Rain...hehe...I do hope that conservation is still important to everyone...I hope that if restrictions are eased, it's not a green light for people to go back to wasting water or continuing to waste water.
I haven't heard or read anything about them letting us water.. but it sure would be nice if we had enough capacity to allow 1 day a week irrigation or something...
What they should do is tell CocaCola or Pepsi or whoever it is thats sucking millions of gallons per day out of our lake to buy water from somewhere else so we can enjoy our water like we used to.
Exactly! Anyone who thinks the restrictions should be lifted is a fool! Yes, the lake is close to being full. But we are still in an EXTREME DROUGHT!!
Why? If the reservoirs are all at capacity then the fact that the rainfall looking back for 18 months has been below normal shouldn't be that big of an issue. If anything, if its been exceptionally dry in the past, then it is likely to rain more in the future... thats how averages end up averages.
I can see it now... we'll have areas that are experiencing flooding, but technically the area is still in an "extreme drought" because of the lower than normal rainfall in the past, and so there will still be people arguing for keeping Stage 2 restrictions.
You know the old saying: "Where there is no vision, the people perish."
If Raleigh officials are already easing restrictions, then they are far more visionless than I gave them credit for.
The lake levels are much lower than they were a year ago at this time, and those year-ago level were well on their way to depletion by early Autumn.
Do these fools really think the draught is over, or that we won't be running on empty by the end of this next (very dry, hot) Summer?
*Sigh*... I think there's a Dylan line about how man manages his destruction with great skill.
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You've got to be (expletive deleted) me!
