SRWMD issues Water Shortage Advisory

A Phase I Water Shortage Advisory was issued by the Suwannee River Water Management District governing board December 14 and will remain in effect until further notice.
The District covers all of Columbia, Dixie, Gilchrist, Hamilton, Lafayette, Madison, Suwannee, Taylor and Union counties, and portions of Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Jefferson, Levy and Putnam counties.
The advisory calls on all residential, commercial, agricultural and industrial users to voluntarily reduce both indoor and outdoor water use through conservation measures.
The District already has a landscape irrigation rule in place which limits lawn and landscape watering to one day per week during fall and winter and two days per week during spring and summer.
The rule took effect in January of this year and applies to all residents within the District. It is permanent, long-term, and requires mandatory landscape irrigation conservation year-round.
The Phase I Advisory, on the other hand, is issued in response to moderate or severe drought conditions and remains in effect only as long as needed. The advisory calls upon all residents to voluntarily implement indoor and outdoor conservation measures in addition to those required by the year-round landscape irrigation rule.