City Of El Paso Reducing Water Use

The City of El Paso?s, General Services Department is working closely with the El Paso Water Utilities to focus on voluntary conservation efforts in certain parks that are supported from wells primarily fed by the Rio Grande, according to a news release.

To be responsive to them and the community, the department has voluntarily reduced watering.

The affected parks have been grouped into three categories:

Category 1 – Parks that are Sports Fields (which are moderate to high use) and very highly used by the surrounding community. For example: Memorial Park, Alta Vista Baseball Field, San Jacinto Plaza, and Cleveland Square ?70 percent reduction the last two weeks, 25 percent reduction next week, 25 percent reduction this week

Category 2 – Parks highly used and provide the only significant green space in their area. For example: Newman, Madeline, and Mundy Parks ?100 percent reduction (no watering) two weeks ago, 75 percent reduction last week, 50 percent reduction this week

Category 3 – Parks not as highly used and in some cases have little to no Greenspace. For example- Sunset Heights and Edgemere Median ?100 percent reduction (no watering) two weeks ago, 90 percent last week, 65 percent this week

Additionally, system-wide, all park watering is being reduced by 20 percent. General Services will do this the remainder of the summer, or until the area receives substantial rain.

Source: City of El Paso news release.