UPDATE: City Response to “City of Evansville Wasting Water at Oak Hill Cemetery”

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Official Response

“As you know, the entire region is experiencing historic drought conditions. To prevent the lakes at Oak Hill Cemetery from drying up completely and causing the fish to die, cemetery staff has resorted to filling the lakes mechanically by running water into the lakes for about 6 hours each day. Everyone would prefer the lakes to refill naturally with rain, but since that is not happening it must be stressed that refilling the lakes mechanically is only being done as a last resort. Hopefully it will rain soon.”

Original Article

Why has this fireplug been filling an already full retention pond in the Oak Hill Cemetery for over 24 hours? The people of the City of Evansville have been asked to conserve water to accommodate the drought conditions for over a week now and the City continues to waste water by tapping into a fireplug to fill a retention pond in the Oak Hill Cemetery beyond it’s capacity. Is this another example of hypocritical government, is it waste, or is it just another case of the lazy right hand not knowing what the lazy left hand is doing?

City of Evansville Wasting Water

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9 COMMENTS

  1. Before we jump the gun… The city has been flushing sediment out of the water system for several weeks. Some hydrants downtown were open for 3-4 days last week and some on the westside for almost a week in mid June. They could be doing the same here and using the ‘waste’ water to fill the retention pond instead of putting it in the sewer system.

    Just a shot in the dark here.

    • running water into a “dry” combination Sewer system helps keep the stuffe flowing… system was originally designed to be flushed by storm water …. does not have slope of modern sewer systems….

  2. How about the city golf course on the Westside watering the grass and greens all day long today.

    What can you say about that?

  3. This pond is refilled numerous times through the year. It is refilled due to evaporation. There are fish in the pond. If they did add 24 hours worth of water to that pond…the fish would have died.

    This article is incorrect.

    NAC

  5. How is the pond being filled to “beyond it’s capacity” as the article states? Is there a dam or spillway not pictured that the water is flowing over?

    Also “it’s” is a contraction for it is or it has. “Its” is a possessive pronoun meaning, “of it” or “belonging to it”.

  6. LOL…I drive by there every day, the hydrant, hose, and sign have been in place for several weeks not days, I have also witnessed white city pickup trucks with tanks in their beds coming and going from the cemetery…filling the tanks from the hydrant/hose….while its fun to second guess what is going on I’d have to think it’s just business as usual here in River City…no conspiracy,nothing to see….move along. 🙂

    JMHO

  7. The EVV waterworks announced last week that they were not running short.

    My take is that the request to cut back and conserve was a guilt trip to appease the local town water departments whose creek or reservoir was getting low.

    Much ado about nothing.

  8. As far as City of Evansville running out of water– is much to do about nothing. Evansville gets its water from the Ohio River. The Ohio River is not going dry!! The amount of water used/consumed by the City versus the Ohio River flow is next to nothing.

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