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Water Conservation

Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Drought Summit to Address Ground Water Issues in County

The summit will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. on July 11.

Followed by a stretch of extreme heat during an already-dry summer, county officials will be holding a drought summit Wednesday morning to address any potential ground water issues.  With the decreased precipitation, water flow in many area streams is greatly reduced, and water levels in many ground water monitoring wells are falling, according to a press release about the dry weather conditions. The summit will be from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the County Administration Building at 2200 North Seminary Avenue in Woodstock.  Municipal officials, watershed monitors, township officials, agricultural representatives, golf course operators, other high volume water users and interested stakeholders are encouraged to attend the meeting and discuss the…

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Water Restrictions in Place for Algonquin, Lake in the Hills (in Algonquin-Lake in the Hills Patch)

Tim

12:30 pm on Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Nice to see so many Cary residents watering their lawns for hours on end, keep it up idiots.   more ›

Saturday, June 30, 2012

Huntley Watering Restrictions: Yellow

Village's watering restriction is yellow, for now. Officials ask residents to think about water conservation during this hot, dry period.

While Huntley isn’t banning outside watering, officials are asking residents to think about conservation in light of the huge volume of water — 5 million gallons on one day alone this week — that is being pumped. The village determines that the base amount of daily water use — the amount needed for things like laundry — during the winter is 1.5 million gallons, Public Works Director Jim Schwartz said. This week, the village calculated water use between 4.5 million and 5 million gallons daily, he said. “It’s a tremendous increase in water and it’s all outside usage,” he said. A bit of rain fell Friday but it did not amount to any significant rainfall. Huntley Major Charles Sass issued a release this week asking residents to limit outside …

B-Dubya

11:11 am on Saturday, June 30, 2012

One final thing to note... While it is nice to know that purified water (treated from Huntley sewage) is going to some use down at Sun City for irrigation and beautification of its common areas, what does “Huntley doing its part” in this regard really mean? To be honest, it raises more questions than provides answers… For instance, is this being done for free, or does Sun City pay for this? …   more ›

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