{"id":166591,"date":"2023-07-11T19:10:22","date_gmt":"2023-07-11T23:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=166591"},"modified":"2023-07-12T08:51:35","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T12:51:35","slug":"city-of-revelstoke-urges-people-to-follow-water-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/city-of-revelstoke-urges-people-to-follow-water-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"City of Revelstoke urges people to follow water restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Water use in Revelstoke in the evening is getting extreme.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Black, the city's lead engineer, says it's because people are watering their lawns at night. While precipitation is lower than average and the province is in a drought, Black says the issue here is that the reservoir needs to refill at night, and the high use of water in the evenings is hampering that.<\/p>\n<p>That's why city bylaws state that people must irrigate their lawns and wash their driveways and sidewalks in the morning, between 6:00 and 10:00. Current restrictions say even house numbers can water on even days, and odd houses on odd days.<\/p>\n<p>Black says the city has had to be using its well at the golf course to supplement the water supply during this hot spell more than they would like to.<\/p>\n<p>He said the city is close to having to enact stricter restrictions, and that bylaw will be out enforcing the water rules. Fines are $100.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>CLICK BELOW FOR A RADIO REPORT:<\/strong><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Water use in Revelstoke in the evening is getting extreme. Steve Black, the city&#8217;s lead engineer, says it&#8217;s because people are watering their lawns at night. While precipitation is lower than average and the province is in a drought, Black says the issue here is that the reservoir needs to refill at night, and the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":166600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,222,225],"tags":[28093,20133,28092,28094,28091],"radio":[14658],"origine":[280,14660,231],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166591"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166622,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166591\/revisions\/166622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166591"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=166591"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=166591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}