Phase 1 – Water Conservation

Usage Target – 20 percent reduction of overall system water use.

Phase 1 Conditions are implemented when:

  1. The water level in the City’s No.1 well drops to, or stabilizes below 50 feet above the pump suction for a period of more than five days.
  2. Lake Georgetown water level drops to 770 feet (mean sea level), and no rainfall or other inflow is predicted, and the Williamson County Raw Water Line is unavailable or is not capable of maintaining Lake Georgetown level above 765 feet at current demand.
  3. An event occurs where water demand exceeds the supply and moderate conservation measures will maintain the ability to provide the proper level of service as determined by the GM, or designee.

Customer and City Actions

  • Increase detection and repair of water leaks in the distribution system.
  • Suspend hydrant testing.
  • Prohibit all water waste.
  • Restrict landscape irrigation use to the use of automatic irrigation systems or hose-end sprinklers during the evening (7:00 p.m. to midnight) and morning hours (midnight to noon) in accordance with an irrigation schedule that provides for no landscape irrigation on Monday with landscape irrigation permitted no more than two days per week with the day of week and irrigation start time specified based upon customer address.
  • Landscape irrigation use is permitted at any time, if it is used:
    • By means of a hand-held hose, soaker hoses, or drip irrigation systems.
    • At a commercial plant nursery.
    • During the testing of new irrigation system installation or existing irrigation system repair.
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