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Daily Herald (Provo, UT)
July 21, 2005
Cedar Hills issues water restrictions
Author: CALEB WARNOCK - Daily Herald
Cedar Hills issued an "emergency notice" of mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday, citing
a shortage in its pressurized irrigation supplies.
Residents who don't comply with the restrictions will receive a warning, with a $50 citation on
the second offense, said city administrator Konrad Hildebrandt.
City staff spent more than half the day Wednesday going door to door to hand-deliver the notices
to residents, he said.
Just over a week ago, the city had asked residents to voluntarily restrict their watering, but that
"didn't work," he said.
The city has more than enough water, and more than enough space in the tank and ponds that
store pressurized irrigation water, he said.
The problem is the pumps, and the people.
Overall, residents are using twice the state-recommended amount of water for their lot sizes, he
said. State recommendations were used to design the system's capacity.
Pumps have been unable to fill the city's 2 million gallon storage tank fast enough to keep pace,
even though the tank was designed to service the city at build-out, which the city is still 900
homes shy of, he said.
Until now, residents have been prohibited from watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. each day,
he said. That allowed eight hours a day for the pumps to refill the tanks.
But the 23-foot-tall tank has been dropping 10 feet a day, he said. To fill the tank, the city must
pump water from a reservoir on the golf course at the mouth of American Fork Canyon up a
bluff to a second pond, and from that pond to the tank, which sits above the city's east bench.
The pumps are only able to fill the tank 6 feet in the eight hours when residents are not allowed
to water, he said.
"Then we start another 16-hour watering period and we are 4 feet down to begin with and we
slowly start to run out of water," he said. "People are using water faster than we can put it back
in the tank."
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