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City asks residents for alternate day sprinkling

Friday, July 24, 2009

The city of Mountain Home is asking residents to begin alternate-day sprinkling.

Residents with even-numbered house addresses are asked to water their lawns on even-number days, and those with odd-numbered addresses should water on odd-numbered days.

Problems with one well in particular, and two others with growing problems, are making it difficult to maintain adequate water levels for the city as it enters the period of the hottest days of summer.

The city has not yet reached a point where it must order mandatory water conservations measures, "but we're close right now," Mayor Tom Rist said, urging every citizen to be mindful of water use in order to avoid stressing the city systems any further.

In order to help even out the demand on the city's pumping capacity, the city has requested that the school district water during the day, and has ordered its own parks department to do the same with city parks, even though the city is aware that is a less efficient time to water.

For more details, see next week's Mountain Home News.

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  • Does this affect county and or anyone on a well already?

    -- Posted by gamesgurl on Sat, Jul 25, 2009, at 12:56 AM

  • And we want a nuclear power plant. We worry about water now. Imagine what will happen down the road if this plan is "stupidly" (Obama's word) approved.

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Mon, Jul 27, 2009, at 8:16 AM

  • Opinionmissy, the city runs off wells. read the article. the power plant would use surface (river) water. Get your facts straight and stop ignoring whatever doesn't fit in with your political agenda.

    -- Posted by technomancer on Mon, Jul 27, 2009, at 9:02 AM

  • Techno, maybe get your facts straight. They will use water from the Snake River and also have to obtain other water rights as well because the Snake River rights will not be enough. Nice try there well informed citizen. Read their own articles which clearly state what I just did. Have a nice day.

    -- Posted by OpinionMissy on Mon, Jul 27, 2009, at 9:41 AM
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    I understand the need to conserve water. I have to point out that the city has only made this request here on MHN. Would it not make more sense to send a letter out to everyone? I mean be one day late with payment on your water bill and the letter is in the mail. Why can't they send out a request of this type just as fast? That is my two cents of input on this topic.

    -- Posted by B Mullen on Mon, Jul 27, 2009, at 6:15 PM

  • Just an observation but the article said nothing about a water shortage but more to the fact that the pumps are having problem cause them to work extra hard to supply water. The same case applies to private wells. They can only pump so much water per hour and I believe that is the problem not a water shortage but I could be wrong.

    -- Posted by Guardian on Tue, Jul 28, 2009, at 3:02 PM
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    Guardian,

    You are correct. demand seems to be more than the operating pumps can supply at least according to the article. My point was how can the city sent out payment notices so fast and yet cannot seem to do the same to keep everyone informed. Not everyone reads the online paper.

    -- Posted by B Mullen on Tue, Jul 28, 2009, at 7:26 PM

  • It seems the local school district is above this request. Thay are running water EVERY DAY, at least at West Elementary, and do they even pay for the water they use?

    -- Posted by Mr.427539 on Wed, Jul 29, 2009, at 10:43 AM

  • Ya, there was a water line broken over by the high school a few weeks ago where some of my family live and it was city line, it leaked profusely for a week.....this letter in the paper came out right about in the middle of that week...but still took the City 6 days to go out and fix it! Hmmmmmm..........Thats water conservation for ya!

    -- Posted by mhg4316 on Wed, Aug 5, 2009, at 12:21 PM
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