YORK COUNTY, Pa. — The York Water Company announced Wednesday, Sept. 6 that it is asking its customers to initiate a voluntary water use restriction.
Customers have been asked to limit their nonessential water usage due to the extended dry weather and reduced supply in the Company's watersheds.
According to the York Water Company, some ways customers can reduce their water usage are as follows:
- Repair appliance and toilet leaks
- Use washers and dishwashers only with full loads
- Take shorter showers and turn off water while soaping
- Reduce the number of toilet flushes per day
- Keep chilled drinking water in the refrigerator
- Do not wash cars, trucks, and other vehicles
- Delay activities that require use of pressure washers or hoses
- Do not water lawns and landscaping
Ways in which commercials and industrial customers can reduce non-essential water use:
- Identify and repair all leaky fixtures and water-using equipment. Special attention is to be given to equipment connected directly to the water line, such as processing machines, steam-using machines, washing machines, water-cooled air conditioners, and furnaces
- Assure that the valves and solenoids which control water flows are shut off completely when the water-using cycle is not engaged
- Adjust water-using equipment to use the minimum amount of water required to achieve its stated purpose
- For processing and cooling and other uses, where possible, either reuse water or use from sources that would not adversely affect public water supplies
- Review usage patterns to see where other savings can be made
- Adjust flushometers and automatic flushing valves to use as little water as possible or to cycle at greater intervals
- Encourage water consciousness by placing water-saving posters and literature where employees and customers will have access to them
- Cease watering golf courses, fairways and greens, athletic fields, and other recreational facilities
- Curtail use of fountains, artificial waterfalls, and reflecting pools
In addition to asking for conscious use by the Company's customers, York Water announced it is activating the Susquehanna River pumping station the week of September 4, to alleviate some of the supply pressure.
If conditions do not change over the next month, it is possible that mandatory water use restrictions will be triggered for York and other water supply customers in certain portions of the Commonwealth, York Water said in a statement.