Voluntary Water Restrictions in Effect
Word on the street and by street I mean Twitter and email is that later today the city will announce voluntary water restrictions going into effect. (Update: Press Release on Restrictions) You may ask yourself, “Self what exactly does that mean?” Fear not for H&H has the handy FAQs on Voluntary Water Conservation pdf. I’ve pulled out the top two below but check out the FAQs for more detail.
- What does a voluntary water conservation measure mean? Residents in the City of Richmond and surrounding counties are asked to voluntarily restrict water use. The biggest impact to residents with voluntary restriction is the watering of their lawns which is: Monday – No watering, Odd property addresses – Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday Even property addresses – Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday.This watering schedule spreads the water demand over the week so we don’t have to pull as much water at one time out of the James River.
- Why did the City issue a Voluntary Water Conservation measure? The City of Richmond operates on a 14 day rolling average and in accordance with the requirements of our permit, whenever levels in the James River get down below 1200 cfs (cubic feet per second) or 3 ½ to 3 ¾ feet depth of water in the James River we must issue a voluntary water conservation measure.
We can also keep an eye on automatic watering systems, our own and the large commercial ones. At 4 am, Hathaway towers had water running down the gutters into the ditch. The sprinklers were watering the pavement as well, which did not seem to be growing.
Sorry to be picky but the affect/effect confusion is one of my pet peeves. The correct word here is Effect, not Affect.
I fixed it Cate. I even looked it up and was still confused.
Here’s a helpful tip: affect is usually used as a verb, effect as a noun. The one major excpetion is that effect is used as a verb when meaning “to bring about/achieve/accomplish.”
A helpful mnemonic is aardvark. I can’t remember the menemonic itself but aardvark starts with “a” like affect and the “v” reminds me of verb.
Thanks Claire – I always struggle with affect and effect too. So I do my best to avoid using either!!
How I remember – Effect is the result of being Affected.