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Show Council considers restricting summer secondary water use wants is not to have any water come August 15th." KAYSVILLE Tuesday evening even-ing the city council took preliminary steps to establish a water use restriction that can be implemented citywide this irrigation irriga-tion season. Final action on the proposal will be taken at the Tuesday, April 2 council meeting. The program under consideration would include having houses with odd house numbers water only on Sundays, Tuesdays and Thursdays. Residents with even house numbers would water on Saturdays, Mondays Mon-days and Wednesdays. Watering on M Fridays would be limited to large users such as schools, churches and public parks. Residents would be asked not to water between the peak use hours of 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. City public works director, Lee Cammack indicated this time is the least efficient period to water anyway, since applying water to lawns and crops in the heat of the day tends to bum the things that are growing and require more water to accomplish the task. The watering on alternate days plan will enable the water suppliers to even out the use at peak times, poses, the companies have no obligation to supply more than the amount required by law. Mayor Brit Howard said he hopes this will be successful on a voluntary basis without mandatory restrictions and penalties. Cammack indicated that some of the irrigation systems have established estab-lished a monitoring system. 'If we start conserving water early in the season, it will not be difficult for folks to live with the restrictions re-strictions this first year," Cammack said. ' The worst thing anyone thereby establishing consistent water levels in the reservoirs and adequate pressure in the distribution lines. These measures are thought to be necessary because of the 5-year drought Utah is experiencing. Kaysville residents receive irrigation irriga-tion water from several sources. The Farmington Irrigation Company, Com-pany, one source of irrigation water, has water rights in the canyon areas around Farmington and is supplemented sup-plemented with Weber Basin shares. The Haights Creek Irrigation Company has water rights in Bair Canyon and through the Weber Basin system. The Davis and Weber County Canal Company system has primary water rights that would allow them to service customers longer than those relying heavily on Weber Basin. Kaysville City has water rights in Webb Canyon and stock in the Kaysville Irrigation Company and the Davis and Weber County Canal Company. Of the Kaysville residents using a secondary water system, two-thirds receive their water from the Farmington Farm-ington and Haight's Creek Irrigation Irriga-tion Companies. Because of the complex situation, it is thought best to establish a uniform restricted water use policy throughout the city. The individual irrigation companies com-panies are already developing restrictions re-strictions that will govern their customers. Information sheets stating these policies will soon be mailed out to all users tied into the system. As far as culinary water use is concerned, Cammack sees no restrictions re-strictions being imposed this year. The companies supplying culinary water are required by law to provide 100 percent of the contracted amount of culinary water. If people decide to use culinary water in excessive ex-cessive amounts for irrigation pur- |