Evansville Water & Sewer Utility declares City-wide water conservation notice to address cold weather-related events affecting the system’s capacityConservation will help alleviate water quality issues and the need for a City-wide boil advisory
EVANSVILLE, Ind. – The Evansville Water & Sewer Utility (EWSU) is declaring a request to all citizens and customers, including businesses and industry, to use less water for the next several days. This will provide some relief to the City’s depleted water resources and treatment facilities’ capacity, which are being affected by weather-related events.Evansville’s water treatment plant water reservoir resources are currently at only 40 percent due to two main causes:
1) Numerous water main breaks are drawing water out of the system, and;
2) The extremely cold water from the Ohio River is creating issues with meeting water quality standards. EWSU crews are actively cleaning the water beds to achieve water quality standards, which is also contributing to drawing down the City’s water resources.
The depleted reservoir may impact water pressure throughout the system, which could result in the need for a City-wide boil advisory. Citizens, businesses and industry can help to avoid that by taking steps to conserve water until the system is back at normal operating capacity.
Here’s how City residents and businesses can help
Report water main breaks – If you spot a water main break, report it immediately by calling the Utility’s dispatch department at (812) 421-2130. The Utility has added staff to its water main repair team and has hired additional outside contractors as well.
Conserve water – There are many ways you can help conserve water:
 Turn off the water while you’re brushing your teeth or shaving.
ï‚· Take showers instead of tub baths. Turn off the water while soaping or shampooing.
ï‚· If you must use a tub, close the drain before turning on the water, and fill the tub only half full. Bathe small children together.
ï‚· Wash fruits and vegetables in a basin. Use a vegetable brush.
 Don’t use water to defrost frozen foods; thaw in the refrigerator overnight.
ï‚· Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher. Wash only full loads.
ï‚· Add food wastes to your compost pile instead of using the garbage disposal.
ï‚· Wash only full loads of laundry or use the appropriate water level or load size selection on the washing machine.
ï‚· Repair leaks. A leaky toilet can waste 200 gallons of water per day. To detect leaks in the toilet, add food coloring to the tank water. If the colored water appears in the bowl, the toilet is leaking.
ï‚· Hold off on getting a car wash.
“Thank you to the many Evansville residents who have already been our additional eyes in the field spotting water main breaks,†said Allen Mounts, executive director of EWSU. “Each of us making small efforts to conserve water will contribute to a quicker restoration of and minimize threats to our residents’ water resources.â€
Given the sewer rate hike I planned on conserving anyway.
OK,well,I can only say,yup told you so. I left a comment on this CCO site that was a direct heads up with the very issue this article is trying to deal with.
People, climate change is here right now,building for sustainability isn’t that rough. First and foremost let me make this very “clear” Your town Evansville “does not have a water shortage,Evansville’s [“Clean water infrastructure”] has a “climate change induced”,environmental conditional CLEAN water source shortage.”
Facts are,so does the rest of the nation most of the time “in all seasonal conditions”. Weather related catastrophic events are going to continue to increase in intensity as we move into the coming years,This is exactly why Environmentally Clean Water sources must be balanced and Carbon dioxide emissions must be sequestered.
The “thermodynamics” that are challenging your cities clean water infrastructure blend directly “by the dots” with the same trouble the combined sewer outflows create,one of the very systems soon to be available will work with strong incrementally applied techniques to defeat both problems,very well,and, costing affected affordable to the customer base of the perceived supply systems where its built.
The thing requires enough construction that huge numbers in skilled trades applications are needed,yet the staging and control develop the bio technical and engineering pathways and transportation logistics,as well.
The details of the design,are balanced and sustainable*,such as any over existing infrastructure construction can be replaced with both solutions in built and blended forward with the same project timing.
When a municipal/rural/metro location plans a major facility construction is the time to build this type infrastructure due to access timing to any type relate base infrastructure grid.
This plan in design,Incrementally defeats clean water issues created by CSO management,and thus supplies more actual clean water resources
Per/nationwide if applied.
Install and maintain such a network,”New Deal II” All the while building and balancing* for Climate Change action,and the clean water act/2012.
“For now the planet thermodynamics are against you”,the river source requires extra actions bio-chemically to keep up the standards in the supply,the water line failures bleed that away almost faster than they can replace totals supplied,city wide boil order? could be,rationing a must,
As beforementioned,when this weather was bearing down on the country I suggested people store some clean water containers before hand. Bread milk and eggs,aren’t the only thing one needs when infrastructures fail. Planning ahead helps. Here is a sustainability tip,remember the fact that once the crews there get water flowing again its going to need to purge a bit to clear for use,now isn’t the time to do that,wait until the supplies catch up and the Water department informs you as such. As homes and businesses begin to see service water pressure again think about the waters actual circuit through the building,so water filters and water heaters should be serviced,as well.
Laundry machines and other end supplies will show cloudy particulates upon service restoration.
“Sedimentation” in your water heater is a thermodynamic problem this causes also,this can affect “your energy bill adversely” in the future,most systems can be flushed for preventative measure,thats a “carbon bonus for energy” use “dot” there,it all adds up.
“Extreme surface heating of the summer will also define the same thermal expansion problems in reverse,so have those expectations applied also.”
I would suggest,scheduling your preferred service professional after this event is over,plumbers,and HVAC people,best balanced sustainability* for you service and future utility costing.
In the mean time help the ESWU fellas out and be extra aware and careful around the main breaks and work sites,those guys have a pretty extreme job right now,let’em work,you know they’re pooped,no pun intended.
“tuis pugis pignore”
“you bet your bippy” ( Rowan & Martin)
Is it true Old National Bank has outhouses @ 3 locations EXCLUDING their main office building?
What kind of a message does that send to their workers?
Idiotic PR move that erodes camaraderie amongst their locations!
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