The Joint Water and Sewer Commission has denied three new requests for water allocations. All of the requests were for commercial users.
When the available water allocation for the summer of 2022 was set at the November meeting, there were only 5,135 gallons per day available. Twenty-five percent of that is reserved for public facilities, and the rest, 3851 gallons is for residential and commercial customers. “I want to point out, it brings us very close to the end,” said Water Superintendent John Breunig. (Contrast that with the available sewer allocation amount of 113,333gallons per day.)Breunig has been raising the alarm for months now, especially as the method by which the utilities calculate the allocation amounts uses average gallons consumed from July through the end of September, distorting the real picture. Breunig says that the water company has no problem providing enough water in September, and so that month should be left out of the equation. When he did that earlier this summer, he found that the water company, had essentially, oversold the available water for July and August.
At this point in time, the water bottleneck is not because of any known lack of water in the
