Winter Storm Recovery and Customer Assistance
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Winter Storm Recovery and Customer Assistance
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February 24, 2021 8 a.m.
Emergency water use restrictions implemented by Austin Water on February 20, 2021, will be lifted on Wednesday, February 24, 2021 at 8 a.m. The emergency restrictions, urging customers to limit water use to basic needs, were put in place to help the distribution system quickly deliver excess water to Austin’s reservoirs and improve overall system pressure. After a monitoring period, and with an excess of 120 million gallons in reserves, it has been determined that Austin Water’s system has safely entered into a healthy range – allowing for lifting of emergency water restrictions.
February 23, 2021 11:30 a.m. Austin Water has lifted the boil water notice for all customers. Customers no longer need to boil water used for drinking, cooking and, making ice. Water quality testing submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has confirmed that tap water meets all regulatory standards and is safe for human consumption.
itself, because each state looks at it differently. my sense is your position is this can be done safely and largely is done safely now. obviously there are exceptions to that. are there standardized rules you would like to see as someone who sees it done safely, you would like to see put in place to ensure that always happens? have you reviewed the new york supplemental gis? 2,000 pages worth of regulations. just to kind of backtrack, there s a lot of discussion around the table, i wanted to bring up the wastewater issue since we keep alluding to it. the wastewater as we know, obviously, is regulated under the clean water act. there s been a lot of talk about this dick cheney and the halliburton loophole. let me say there s an exemption put in in 2005 exempting from the drilling process from a particular kind of scrutiny required by federal law in the safe drinking water