City of Kyle Moves to Once a Week Watering
as Drought Tightens Grip on Water Supplies

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, and that would be a hot & dry rock, you are aware that Central Texas is the grips of a severe drought. This drought has seen massive reductions in both ground water and surface water supplies, causing cities and water suppliers to raise their conservation requirements for all customers. The City of Kyle, even with its successful strategy of diversifying the City’s water supply, is feeling the pinch. In anticipation of additional pumping restrictions from the City’s water resources, the City of Kyle will be moving to a once per week mandatory watering schedule, effective April 6th.

The City will remain at the current Stage Two Mandatory Water Use Management level that was initiated in June of 2008, meaning that additional restrictions will not be put in place at this time. However, a move to even stricter water userules could be implemented in the near future unless the area receives significant rain this spring.

Watering is permitted on your designated day only during the hours before 10 am and after 7 pm. Automatic irrigation systems may only operated between the hours of Midnight and 10 am. See the attached chart for specific watering days.

“It is important that residents take this mandatory watering schedule very seriously,” said Tom Mattis, Kyle City Manager. “We will make every attempt to encourage people to comply voluntarily. However, we will aggressively enforce our watering restrictions for those residents that fail to follow the watering schedule.”

Violation of this ordinance constitutes a misdemeanor offense and carries a fine of not less than $50.00 nor more than $2,000.00 for each day of the violation.

These restrictions are mandatory for all City of Kyle water Customers. Kyle residents getting water from other companies should contact their respective water suppliers for information regarding watering restrictions.

Kyle residents should also take extra care to conserve water both inside and outside of their homes. Some tips include repairing dripping faucets, installing low flow shower heads and toilets, shortening time spent in the shower, be sure that dish washers and clothes washers are full when they run, and don’t let water run while brushing teeth. These little conservation activities can add up to save a lot of water.

The City of Kyle has implemented successful and effective water management strategies that have focused on diversification of the City’s water supply. The result of these policies is that the City of Kyle has an adequate water supply to meet the needs of businesses and residents. However, Kyle City Leaders recognize the need to continue to do their part to conserve water as the drought continues to worsen.

For more information, visit www.cityofkle.com.

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