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Conroe leaders consider wider moratorium and seek data as water demand nears capacity
Summary
City staff warned Conroe's water supply is under stress and council instructed staff to return with modeling and a concrete action plan; water production rose to nearly 17 million gallons per day compared with 15.4 million last April, and staff said projects under construction will only partially offset demand this year.
Conroe officials on April 23 asked staff for more modeling and a clear action plan after engineers and water production staff warned that demand and drought conditions have pushed the city close to regulatory capacity limits.
"This time last year in April we were producing 15,400,000 gallons a day. This time in April we're doing almost 17,000,000 gallons a day," Jason Miller, the city's water production staff member, told the council. "It's extremely dry right now. There's no end in sight as far as the drought goes. The forecast...look very grim."
City staff described multiple projects already under design or construction — Well 27 (online), Water Plant 29 (expected online in July), Water Plant 30 and Water Plant 32 and a bypass for…
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