Conservation measures prohibit all outdoor watering, and Leander water customers are asked to turn off irrigation systems completely and limit other nonessential uses until further notice.
The measures prohibit all outdoor watering, and Leander water customers are asked to turn off irrigation systems completely and limit other nonessential uses until further notice.
BCRUA pipeline repair work is scheduled to begin Wednesday, Sept. 21, and may last 10-14 days, says the city. During this time, the BCRUA water treatment plant will be out of service and Leander's water treatment capacity will be reduced by more than 50 percent from 25 to 9 million gallons per day. In July, average Leander water use was about 18 million gallons per day.
"My beautiful rose bush here, I waited three years to get this thing, and I finally got it, my prized Paul McCartney rose, and now look at it. I planted it three weeks ago and the poor thing is struggling," Joe Rasenberger said."I bought a whole bunch of stuff for my lawn, plugs, to get my lawn to grow back in, and now, couple hundred dollars worth of plugs, they're all dying," he said. "All of my Bermuda died.
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