Did you hear the drought is over? Unfortunately, that's what millions of Californian's heard when the State Water Resources Control Board announced that they were lifting the state wide band of mandatory 25% water reductions. What they didn't hear was that they were turning over any water restrictions to the individual water districts and retailers.
The individual water districts and retailers were instructed to perform a stress test applying the previous three years of drought conditions and usage to the upcoming three years. Where water supply is after 3 years of simulated drought conditions determines what restrictions are necessary.
Several water districts and retailers have lifted the ban due to water supply conditions meeting the stress test. Santa Clara Valley Water District (SCVWD), Cinnabar Hill's purveyor, has lowered the reduction from 30% down to 20%.
We are allowed to use more water this year, but we aren't going to settle to just meet the 20%. The drought and the last two years of conservation demand has changed our habits and mindset which is exactly what a conservation program is suppose to do. We are as green as can be right now for June and it isn't because we are using more water. We have actually saved 31.4% to date. We've converted nozzles, added acid injection, applied tons upon tons of calcium, converted to single head control, changed the frequency in which we water and removed over 150,000 square feet of turf. All of these permanent changes are part of our new norm and hearing golfers comments recently as they come off the course, our new norm is pretty darn good.
See how great we look on this recent drone flyover.
