(May 12, 2009, The Charlotte Observer)
City Manager Curt Walton recommended a $1.87 billion budget Monday that includes an increase in water rates but not property taxes.
Water users will see $2.37 a month added to the average $45.92 water bill – a 5.2 percent increase.
Walton’s proposed budget puts more money toward street resurfacing, but freezes [...]
(May 5, 2009, Durham MyNC)
Starting June 1, Durham residents will have to follow rules when they’re watering their lawns. Monday night the Durham City Council approved new year-round water restrictions for all customers here.
The new schedule applies to all spray irrigation systems:
Those customers with odd-numbered addresses can water once on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday before [...]
(April 13, 2009, The Winston-Salem Journal)
North Carolina considers itself the most progressive of the Southern states, so it is shocking to learn that we’re so far behind everyone else in the region when it comes to managing water. Clodfelter’s bill is modeled on Georgia’s law. The rest of the southeastern states have management systems, too.
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(Feb. 10, 2009, MSNBC)
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — It is because Mecklenburg County residents conserved water during the area’s most decent drought that they may pay more for it if they find themselves in the same situation in the future.Charlotte’s city council heard a recommendation Monday night from Charlotte Mecklenburg Utilities for a drought surcharge—a fee assessed [...]
(Feb. 3, 2009, News & Observer)
The Raleigh City Council will receive a report today that recommends creating a three-tier rate structure for residential water customers.
Under the proposal, which is preliminary and likely to be refined, customers would be charged 60 percent less than the current flat rate for the first 3,000 gallons of water. Raleigh [...]
(Jan. 11, 2009, The Hickory Record)
The U.S. Drought Monitor shows a small area in the upper basin in abnormally dry to moderate drought conditions.
The long-term trends for groundwater levels continue to show gradual improvement, even though they remain below normal for this time of year.
The six-month average of area stream flows improves to slightly [...]
(Jan. 7, 2009, Charlotte Observer)
The receding drought in Charlotte and the rest of Western North Carolina appears to have left a lasting gift: water conservation that’s gone mainstream.
Dry conditions still badger 28 counties west of Charlotte, a year after severe drought gripped most of the state. Despite improving rainfall, communities across the Charlotte region are [...]
