The City o Port Townsend is not ready to call it a Crisis YET?
WTF? It is a serious CRISIS.
The Port Townsend Paper Corp. uses 14 MILLION Gallons a Day. This is NOT acceptable period. AND the City of Port Townsend want YOU to "conserve water"?? What a Joke.
Ian Jablonski, City of Port Townsend water quality manager wants you to cut down on water use. See it would be a good idea to stop watering lawns and restrict unnecessary water use,” Jablonski said.
SERIOUSLY Port Townsend, are you falling for this CRAP?
I seen a Port Townsend Commissioners meeting last March about the 14 Million Gallon that the Port Townsend Paper Mill uses every SINGLE day and that it is FUTILE to ask the residents to not consume when the Port Townsend Paper Corp. uses an OUTRAGEOUS amount EVERY SINGLE DAY.
"The City of Port Townsend expects to start drawing from Lords Lake this week to meet the city’s water needs – more than two months earlier than is historically normal.
The move signals an increasing awareness of the severely low snowpack throughout the state, which prompted Gov. Jay Inslee to call a statewide emergency drought situation in May.
On Monday, June 22, the state Department of Natural Resources expanded a burn ban on all state-protected lands to include those west of the Cascades.
Even Port Townsend Paper Corp. is looking to save water by considering the installation of a second cooling tower, which would save it an additional 500,000 gallons a day.
Olympic National Park officials, who are currently monitoring a lightning-caused fire in the Queets Valley in West Jefferson, report that this is the Olympic Peninsula's driest year since 1951.
LORDS LAKE
“We’ve never had to draw from the lake this early,” said Ian Jablonski, City of Port Townsend water quality manager and a 22-year city employee. It's typical to draw from the lake in early September, he said.
City officials aren't calling the situation a crisis, but Jablonski said Tuesday it is time for city residents to think about water consumption.
“It would be a good idea for our customers to stop watering lawns and restrict unnecessary water use,” Jablonski said.
At one water gauge below the city's diversion point, the Little Quilcene River had a flow of 32 cubic feet per second, the lowest recorded flow for this time of year since the gauge was installed in 1994, he said.
No official declaration urging water conservation has been made by the city.
In the meantime, the city has received permission from the state Department of Ecology (DOE) to raise the level of Lords Lake for a second time in three months in an effort to capture more water from the Big Quilcene River, which also is dropping because of the low Olympic Mountains snowpack.
“Hopefully, we’ll get a few more million gallons,” Jablonski said of the effort to add to Lords Lake.
Source
http://www.ptleader.com/news/drought-city-raises-lords-lake-a-second-time-this-year/article_e908d478-19f7-11e5-80cb-13bf9568a566.html