Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
CONCORD, N.C. -- The Cities of Concord and Kannapolis continue to monitor water levels of all the streams that provide raw water for treatment and distribution to their customers. While rainfall has contributed to the rising levels of the water reservoirs, Lake Howell is still over three feet below full pond and stream flows feeding all reservoirs are below normal. To be prepared for a dry summer season when evaporation is at its peak, it is desired for stream flows to be closer to normal levels and/or for all reservoirs serving our communities to be full.
While irrigation by use of sprinklers and other automated watering devices is still banned at all times, restrictions on watering using a spring-loaded nozzle have been revised to allow limited use.
Water use restrictions for customers of the municipalities of Concord, Kannapolis, Harrisburg, Landis, and Mount Pleasant are amended effective Saturday, April 12, 2008 to allow the following:
The following activities are permitted:
• Watering of trees, flowers, shrubs, ornamental plants and vegetable gardens for plant preservation all day on Tuesday and Saturday.
• Watering must be performed with a hand-held hose equipped with a spring-loaded nozzle. The user shall ensure the minimum amount of water used for watering.
The following activity will be permitted on any Saturday at any time effective June 14th, 2008:
•Residential car washing will be allowed using a hand-held hose or pressure washer equipped with a spring-loaded nozzle.
The following activities ARE NOT permitted under the modifications to the Level III Mandatory Water Restrictions:
• NO lawn watering using any type of system connected to the municipal water system shall be permitted.
• NO irrigation services will be activated. (Irrigation services may be installed; but no meters will be set or activated until the drought has subsided.)
• O residential car washing shall be allowed.
• Filling of swimming pools and operation of ornamental fountains is still prohibited; however, topping off is acceptable.
• Use of water for wash down of outside areas is prohibited except for pressure washing businesses with an appropriate privilege license. These businesses will ensure the waste of water does not occur.
