Be careful what you wish for. If the high use people use less water,
which I hope they will, the water rates for everyone will have to go up
to provide the revenue needed to keep the water clean and safe.
Ruth Ann Hendrickson
(She, her)
On 8/4/2022 8:36 PM, Joan Kimball wrote:
Perhaps we should find a way to fund our water that does not depend on
excessive water usage.
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022, 8:29 PM Ruth Ann Hendrickson
<[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, of course some people don't water their lawns and others have
little or no lawn and then some have vast lawns and water them
lavishly. We have not recently run the data to see the
percentages. Let's just say that if all the lavish waterers
stopped irrigating, we wouldn't have enough revenue to run the
water department. The base charge only covers part of the cost
maintaining and operating the water infrastructure.
For leak detection, professionals drive through the town in the
early morning hours when very little water is consumed, and they
use special highly-sensitive acoustic equipment to hear the sound
of running water. The water department also attempts to measure or
calculate other non-metered water use, such as main flushing,
firefighting, etc. They measure the water pumped out into the
system, subtract the water read by the meters, and the water used
in known activities mentioned above and the result is the
unaccounted for water (UAW). They always find a number of leaks,
some quite substantial, and fix them quickly. A UAW of 25% is not
uncommon.
Ruth Ann Hendrickson
(She, her)
On 8/4/2022 10:46 AM, Andy Wang wrote:
I'm curious, is it that some folks are going WAY over 65 gal/per
person/per day and throwing off the average or is that most
households are going over that per day? Just curious if it is
largely a systemic issue or just a few outliers that are pulling
the numbers high. That seems like the water department or the
town has that data since they are billing people. Is that
information public record? Seems like an interesting dataset to
go through.
Also, 25% water loss seems huge. What is the mechanism to detect
loss of water? I presume you know how much is being cumulatively
pushed through all the meters in Lincoln (the out), but are there
multiple points to measure the input flow? Or even localize? I
know when the town suspected a leak near our house, they hired
someone with acoustic equipment to find the leak. it worked, but
probably not cost effective on a large scale.
Andy
On Thu, Aug 4, 2022 at 10:23 AM RAandBOB <[email protected]>
wrote:
The state restricts us in three ways: we are supposed to meet
65 gallons per person per day overall. We have a maximum
amount of water we may draw from the well and from the pond.
Our unaccounted for water should be less than 10%. We don’t
meet any of those metrics.
We are not over by a lot in water usage, but we are always
over. We are under during the winter months, and
significantly over during the summer months, so you know that
the extra water usage is from outdoor watering.
With regard to the leaks, we have a leak detection program
that was yearly and is now going to be multiple times per
year, but we still have almost 25% water loss. My personal
suspicion is that it is from leaking service lines between
the street and the house. Very hard to detect especially for
houses that are far from the street.
Be a good scout for the water department. If you hear running
water or see swampy areas in your yard or in the woods, call
us. The last two major leaks that we fixed were reported by
alert citizens.
Ruth Ann
(She, her, hers)
On Aug 3, 2022, at 3:06 PM, Ursula Nowak
<[email protected]> wrote:
If you are referring to my email, I didn't say we are using
more than our neighboring towns. We are using more than the
goal set by the state for us which is 65 gallons per person
per day. At least that is my understanding of why we are a
level above the state drought restrictions but perhaps a
member of the water commission could shed more light on
this. I attended part of their meeting on Friday and was
impressed with their dedication and diligence. I am grateful
for the work they do on our behalf!
Ursula
On Wed, Aug 3, 2022 at 2:45 PM Pat Gray <[email protected]>
wrote:
First, is the data correct?
Sent from my iPhone
> On Aug 3, 2022, at 2:42 PM, Elaine Hawkes
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Having read that our town uses more water than
others, and not noticing that we, or our cars, are any
cleaner than average, I am wondering in what ways we are
using so much water.
> Does the data give any information?
> Thanks,
> Elaine
> 🤔
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