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"RALEIGH, N.C. -- Raleigh leaders are asking again that the city's water customers cut back on water to avoid mandatory water restrictions. But this time, they want customers to do more. The request comes after city officials met with members of the Army Corps of Engineers Thursday to discuss low water levels at Falls Lake, which serves as the main source of water for Raleigh and other Triangle-area locations, such as Fuquay-Varina, Garner and Holly Springs. City officials said the lake is not at a crisis level yet, but it could be within the week. "We have yet to reach the low point that the lake reached in 2002," said Dale Crisp, city utilities director. "And of course, we did implement mandatory measures in 2002. If the lake drops to that level or below the low point like we did in 2002, then I think the prudent thing would be to move to mandatory measures." Currently, Falls Lake is about 6 inches from where it was in 2002 when the city imposed mandatory restrictions. On Sept. 20, city leaders imposed voluntary restrictions and asked that water customers cut back their usage by 10 percent or more. "We need that to be doubled," said Dale Crisp/Utilities Director: "We actually need water customers to cut back an equal amount again." The city plans to stick with voluntary conservation until the area receives normal rainfall for this time of year."

PLEASE DO YOUR PART TO CONSERVE WATER

11/2/2005 9:20:26 AM

damn,

i'm glad I seeded my lawn at the beginning of october or i'd be fucked.

11/2/2005 9:23:27 AM

damn, i posted the wrong article
but i heard on the news this morning that mandatory restr. go into effect i think immediately.
fines and everything if caught washing vehicles or watering yards, etc.

11/2/2005 9:27:31 AM

wow, i had no idea. I figured you guys got some of the 15 inches of water the Northeast got last month.

11/2/2005 9:31:52 AM

we had like a week of steady rain the second week of october. It was beautiful, because i had just seeded about three days beforehand.

but since then it's been dryer than the average TWWer's sex life.

11/2/2005 9:35:27 AM

and there is NO rain in the forecast
we were suppose to get some yesterday but it missed us

11/2/2005 9:49:24 AM

damn blind melon to hell

11/2/2005 9:55:01 AM

fuck that, i need to wash my car bad

11/2/2005 11:22:39 AM

^ you can still use a commercial car wash

11/2/2005 11:54:35 AM

why dont they just raise the price

11/2/2005 11:55:23 AM

no restrictions for GSO yet and we don't have a natural water source.

why exactly do residental customers pay more for water than commercial?

conserve water my ass city govt. bastards.

11/2/2005 1:54:21 PM

I did notice that they were watering the steps of Reynolds yesterday. I suppose the university is doing its part in the conservation efforts.

11/2/2005 2:13:50 PM

Falls Lake looks like a football field where I-85 crosses it. It has been dry long enough that bright green grass is growing on it and there is only water in the very center of the channels.

I hiked near the Upper Barton boat ramp not too long ago and ended up going off the trail and just walking around the shoreline because the water had receded about 40 feet from the woods in most spots.

11/2/2005 2:14:14 PM

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"no restrictions for GSO yet and we don't have a natural water source."

I thought Greensboro got its water from Townsend/Brandt/Higgins. Are all three man-made?

11/2/2005 3:02:49 PM

We need Hurricane Gamma

11/2/2005 3:13:08 PM

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"Are all three man-made?"

yessiree.

that's one of the reason's GSO has a terrible time attracting commercial businessess.

[Edited on November 2, 2005 at 3:51 PM. Reason : eh]

11/2/2005 3:50:16 PM

im gonna go water my front deck

11/2/2005 5:14:33 PM

Oh no, I'll have to stop not watering my lawn.

11/2/2005 5:18:11 PM

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"damn blind melon to hell"

hehe

11/2/2005 5:37:32 PM

i took a 50minute shower today

11/2/2005 5:39:26 PM

they said this morning that durhams 2 water sources are a combined 30something feet below normal...

one is around 12ft and the other source is a good 20 feet below

11/3/2005 8:35:00 AM

Only Mark Jacobson can save us now!

"For all the right reasons!"

11/3/2005 8:36:56 AM

if falls lake's level falls about a foot more, we can expect level 3 restrictions.
as it is now, we will run out of drinking in jan. 06

11/16/2005 8:51:33 AM

werer fucked

11/16/2005 9:19:28 AM

what are level 3 restrictions?

11/16/2005 9:21:50 AM

way shittier than level two i bet

11/16/2005 9:24:42 AM

Run out of drinking water? Hell no! We're just going to have to put up with about infinity inches of random snowfall that lead to massive flooding (upon melting) and a refill of the lake.

11/16/2005 9:27:00 AM

OMG THE GOVT CONTROLS THE WEATHER THEY ARE PREVENTING RAINFALL IN ORDER TO MAKE US PAY MORE FOR GAS AND MAKE W AND HIS FRIENDS RICHER.

I READ ALL ABOUT IT ON PRISONPLANET

11/16/2005 9:57:34 AM

the radio said if we dont get rain by mid january we could run out of water by then lol

11/16/2005 10:05:22 AM

well i seriously doubt that raleigh will run out of water

11/16/2005 10:11:19 AM

and it wont matter for me, because ill be kicking it in GSO next semester

11/16/2005 10:11:44 AM

MY GRASS IS FUCKING DYING

FOR THE LOVE OF EVERYTHING IMPORTANT IN THIS WORLD

PLEASE FUCKING RAIN IMMEDIATELY.

11/16/2005 10:17:51 AM

I have been conserving water by mainly consuming

11/16/2005 10:18:41 AM

exactly.

"they have no water? then let them drink beer!"

11/16/2005 10:23:33 AM

these motherfuckers*........."oh my god, water is running out, but I am COMPELLED to water my lawn"...

what dumb asses.

*unless your lawn is new. I don't know what it is, but around home, we sure as hell don't water the lawn- EVER- and it is nice, thick, and green. Very attractive yard. But then again, I guess not everyone has the same lawn. And when you have a $HUGE sprinkler system, you just HAVE to use it.

[Edited on November 16, 2005 at 10:31 AM. Reason : .]

11/16/2005 10:28:49 AM

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"what are level 3 restrictions? "

level 3 means that they shut down car washes, no watering yards, plants or washing cars.
first time offenders can expect a $1000.00 fine

thats right 1k for not obeying water restrictions, even if its the first offense.

11/16/2005 10:59:49 AM

well, at least I got to water the lawn last night.

11/16/2005 11:08:59 AM

cant fill swimming pools

11/16/2005 11:29:27 AM

luckily the city is actually doing something about this. they are building a new treatment plant on lake benson, so next year (maybe 2 years) we won't have to worry about this.

the drought is just making the real issue more apparent: the population of raleigh has increased over the last 20 years and the city gov't has been slack in making up for this fact concerning water availability

11/16/2005 11:43:06 AM

NCSU could save a lot of water by changing the shower heads in the gym and dorms to water saving kinds...it's like a damn gyser when you turn them on.

11/16/2005 11:57:08 AM

fuck that those water saving shower heads sucks

11/16/2005 11:59:26 AM

I watered my houseplants

take that city of raleigh

11/16/2005 12:06:12 PM

I'm on well water

haha losers

11/16/2005 12:15:12 PM

i was at PF Changs the other night and they had water on every table even if you didnt ask for it.
i almost called chnl. 5

11/16/2005 12:23:57 PM

^why didnt you?
857-4540 is the number to turn 8:30 - 5:15
there's no afterhours hotline

11/16/2005 12:36:59 PM

at work i had some uppity woman like ambrosia say she was going to call the number

11/16/2005 12:46:10 PM

Really, let the damn lawn die. It's november for christ's sake. Who gives a shit if the lawn is brown?

11/16/2005 1:06:28 PM

brown !=dead

11/16/2005 1:15:48 PM

drinking water wont run out. this is america. they will pipe some in from somewhere else. nothing to get uppity about

11/16/2005 1:50:47 PM

Bobby,

Depends on the grass. Some (most) are seasonal and meant to go down for a few months a year.

11/16/2005 3:47:27 PM