We don’t expect you to let new trees and shrubs dry up and die, but our yards have been hit hard by a lack of rain and cooler weather. So watering them isn’t going to be that much more helpful.
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The last note I wrote, I was trying anything for a rain cloud. Thankfully, some of you read the article and did your part in getting so much welcome rain for our community. In last week’s paper, there was a notice for our citizens to voluntarily cut back on our water supply. This is a very serious situation, and I applaud those of you who take this sort of thing to heart. We don’t expect you to let new trees and shrubs dry up and die, but our yards have been hit hard by a lack of rain and cooler weather. So watering them isn’t going to be that much more helpful. Grass does go dormant and will revive when weather conditions are better. Let’s not waste our precious commodity on that. And besides that, everyone in town can tell who is watering their yards, since it’s the only green lawn.
Our water plant has been running 22 to 23 hours a day, and it’s just too hard on equipment to run continually that much. To show good faith in how serious this could be, I’ve taken down the three hanging plants at city hall. I appreciated all the compliments we had on them, but feel that the water issue should start at city hall. We have notified the rural water district to conserve, so hopefully they notified their customers. It takes a community working together to help solve these issues, so please do your part. A little conservation now, will hopefully benefit all of us in the long run.
Until next time,
Barb Ballew, mayor