GRCA asking users to cut water consumption
Posted Jun 3, 2015 02:46:43 PM.
Last Updated Jun 3, 2015 02:48:58 PM.
This article is more than 5 years old.
Users throughout the Grand River watershed are being asked to cut their consumption slightly because of this year’s unusually dry weather.
Despite heavy rain last weekend, users are still askeded to cut down by 10 per cent.
The Grand River Low Water Response Team has called for the decrease in use after a meeting earlier today, which resulted in them placing the watershed at Level One under the Ontario Low Water Response plan.
Level one calls for a voluntary reduction in water consumption by holders of Permits to Take Water. These permit holders include municipalities as well as golf course, water bottlers and farms.
In a release the Grand River Conservation Authority advises they have been augmenting the flow in the Grand, Conestogo and Speed rivers with water stored in its reservoir and managed to store enough from the spring melt and April rains to continue flows throughout the summer.
They say this will help municipalities that get all or some of their drinking water from the Grand River including Waterloo Region, Brantford and Six Nations.
