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Royce City Council adopts five-year water conservation plan, adds guidance on rain barrels
Summary
Royce City on Feb. 4 adopted Resolution 25-1 to update its five-year Water Conservation Plan, adding a reference to rainwater catchment guidance and noting longer-term meter and backup-power measures for well reliability.
Royce City Council on Feb. 4 approved Resolution 25-1, adopting the city's required five-year Water Conservation Plan update and directing staff to add guidance on rainwater catchment (commonly called rain barrels) to the document's conservation tips.
The plan update fulfills a state requirement that municipal water conservation plans be refreshed every five years; the council voted unanimously to adopt the draft with the rain-barrel amendment. City staff and a consulting engineer told the council the plan documents existing conservation measures, identifies the city's water supplies and usage trends, and lists additional actions the city could take to meet state conservation goals.
City staff member Brandon introduced the item as the formal five-year update and said the document "is one of the requirements that we're just showing that we're doing our part…
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