City of Weyburn advising residents to temporarily conserve water

Following an extended power outage at the Nickle Lake intake on Sunday, the City of Weyburn is asking residents and businesses to temporarily conserve water.

As part of this non-essential water conservation effort, the City’s two spray parks, including the Don Mitchell Tot Lot and River Park, are temporarily closed.

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What this means

The temporary disruption resulting in the urgent water conservation measure is effective immediately.

Residents and businesses are asked to stop lawn watering and irrigation; avoid washing vehicles or other non-essential outdoor water use; and limit other non-essential water use wherever possible. Water can continue to be used for essential household and business needs, including drinking, cooking, hygiene and sanitation.

“That’s things like watering your lawn, washing your car outside, laundry that maybe doesn’t have to get done,” said Paige Tenbult, Communications Coordinator with the City of Weyburn.

“Of course, water can continue to be used for essential household needs, business needs, things like cooking, hygiene, sanitary things.”

This temporary conservation measure will help maintain the City’s treated water reserves while crews work to return normal water production levels at the Water Treatment Plant.

“The conservation is going to help the city maintain our current water reserve levels. That non-essential use allows us that temporary time to make sure that the system is all back working and that we can get back to lifting that temporary water conservation,” she said.

“It’s just more to help support that we don’t want to run out of the water while our crews are getting everything at the water treatment plant back online.”

The City will provide updates

“As crews are working to get that production level back to the normal levels that we need, the City of Weyburn will provide updates through the alert system, through our website, through social media, through the local media, when we have more information on when the temporary water conservation can be lifted,” Tenbult said.

“We really do thank the residents and businesses for helping to conserve water during this temporary disruption. We know that it can cause a bit of an inconvenience, especially for that non-essential water use.”

General water conservation bylaw always in effect

“Of course, we do have our water conservation bylaw. It’s a year-long thing. So we do encourage people to not water on Wednesdays, even when we get off of this temporary notice, and then to water on the days that their household is permitted to water on. So, all of that information can be found at the City of Weyburn website,” Tenbult said.