This letter answers a Vail Daily reader question about how a future, renewed Bolts Lake would be filled. The question was prompted by Scott Miller’s May 22 story that followed up on the announcement by…
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Keeping water flowing to customers is job one for the Eagle River Water & Sanitation District. It’s going to require planning and conservation to meet that goal in coming years.
District general manager Linn Brooks recently presented an overview of the district’s master plan for the coming years. The plan includes a number of steps and will require the help of the district’s customers to conserve water.
The biggest conservation goal requires cutbacks in the amount of water used for outdoor irrigation.
The district has five billing tiers, with tiers 4 and 5 reflecting the most water use. Brooks said the district’s goal is to eliminate use in those top billing tiers.