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8.8.01 Water pressure expected to be low Water users in western Douglas County may find their water pressure low again Wednesday evening and Thursday morning. That's because Metropolitan Utilities District customers are expected to draw on the area's two west reservoirs at a fast pace Wednesday. M.U.D. officials estimated that sometime Wednesday the company would again hit or cross the 200 million-gallon mark in water use. It would be the second time this month and the third time in the past 10 years that that level has been reached. The all-time high of 223 million gallons came with a 100 degree-plus heat wave in 1988. The district's two western reservoirs, with a total capacity of 41 million gallons, held about 31 million gallons Wednesday morning after an overnight filling, said spokeswoman Mari Matulka. That is slightly more than 75 percent of capacity. The reservoirs had been down to 65 percent earlier. Dropping levels in the reservoirs have led to low water pressure. The utility is at a Level I alert, requesting that residents with odd-numbered addresses restrict watering to odd-numbered days, and those with even-numbered addresses water on even-numbered days. The utility also has asked customers to avoid filling pools and washing cars at home. M.U.D. has a 5-year-old application before the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to build a new 100-million-gallon plant on the Platte River between Douglas and Saunders Counties. |
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