This is Eric Carty, Water Manager, with an important water supply advisory for municipal water system users. Due to the extended dry conditions we have encountered this winter, spring and now summer, rapidly decreasing groundwater levels, coupled with the dramatic rise in water consumption, and due to state imposed restrictions in the towns water management act, we must enact mandatory outside water use restrictions for all lawn sprinklers.
Please turn off all lawn sprinkler systems immediately and we ask that you minimize all other unnecessary use. Other outdoor use including hand held watering of flowers, shrubs and gardens is currently still permitted before 9AM and after 5PM. It is imperative that everyone adhere to these restrictions, to help maintain adequate water supplies for daily essential needs, to meet firefighting capabilities and to help avoid further outdoor restrictions.
Penalties
Any person violating this By-law shall receive a written warning for the first offense. For the second offense, any person violating this By-law shall be liable to the Town in the amount of $100.00, which shall inure to the Town for such uses as the DPW Director may direct. For any violations beyond the second offense, water service may be suspended. Fines shall be recovered by inclusion as a charge on the next scheduled water bill.
Updates will be provided as necessary, through the town’s website, local newspapers, HCAM TV and the CodeRed phone call system. For instantaneous updates please go to www.hopkintonma.gov/home/about/follow and select water and sewer notices and follow us on our Twitter feed @hopkintonwater.
We thank you for your cooperation with this important matter.
Information will also be posted on the water use restriction signs located throughout town.
Location of Water Use Restriction Signs
1. Main St. @ Exxon
2. West Main @ Wood St. West Bound
3. Wood St. @ Westboro Line East Bound
4. Pond & Spring Intersection
5. South & West Main Intersection West Bound
6. West Main @ Pleasant East Bound
7. West Main @ School West Bound
8. Ash @ Park South Bound
9. Hayden Rowe @ Tennis Courts South Bound
10. Hayden Rowe @ Chestnut North Bound
11. East Main St. @ TJ’S West Bound