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Middleburg Council debates water-conservation ordinance: caps, commercial carve-outs and next steps
Summary
Council reviewed a revised draft water-conservation ordinance, discussed flexible residential caps, commercial reductions, and data-driven metrics; staff will refine thresholds and reporting and return with revisions.
The Middleburg Town Council reviewed a revised proposal for a water-conservation ordinance that would establish staged restrictions during drought conditions and give staff and the council flexibility to set residential caps in extreme rationing.
Town Manager Danny Davis described the primary change in the draft: rather than fixing a single per-unit cap for the most severe rationing stage, the council or the town manager could set a cap that reflects local conditions and household size. Davis said a 300-gallon-per-day cap was a possible starting point but that the town should keep flexibility to tighten restrictions if the system does not improve.
Davis also presented measured results from the town's prior conservation actions: when the…
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