Wednesday, January 17, 2001
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Wednesday, January 17, 2001 |
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Drought recovery continues By DAVE
HAMRICK
As rain continues to occasionally fall, water supplies in Fayette County continue to recover from a three-year drought. Horton Creek Reservoir on Antioch Road rose an additional three feet in December, going from 7.3 feet below its normal full level to four feet low, Water System director Tony Parrott reported to the Water Committee last week. The Water System averaged producing 7.6 million gallons of drinking water per day so far in January, continuing a downward trend that started in the early fall. Average use in December was 7.75 mgd, compared to nine mgd in October and 7.7 mgd in November. Customers used 10.5 mgd on the heaviest usage day in November, on the first, while the maximum so far in January was just over eight million gallons, Jan. 7. Peak usage last summer was about 16 mgd. Outdoor watering restrictions remain in effect, but Parrott said that's only because they're mandated by the state due to water shortages in many counties. Fayette's supply is in good shape, he said. Nonetheless, residents are permitted to water only from 10 p.m. to 10 a.m. on an odd/even system. Water on odd days if your street address is an odd number, and vice versa. Parrott also reported that construction of the South Fayette Water Treatment Plant on Antioch Road, which will add six million gallons a day to the county's treated water capacity, is 80 percent complete. Plans are to crank the plant up in May. Foundation work is complete on a two-million-gallon water storage tank at Lee's Mill Road and Ga. Highway 92 north, he reported. Also, phase two of the Water System's five-year project to meter readers to do their work using radio receivers in their cars is 95 percent finished, he said.
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