{"id":7959,"date":"2024-12-04T19:25:30","date_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/?p=7959"},"modified":"2024-12-04T19:25:47","modified_gmt":"2024-12-04T23:25:47","slug":"region-of-queens-lifts-water-saving-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/2024\/12\/04\/region-of-queens-lifts-water-saving-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Region of Queens lifts water-saving warning"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Region of Queens has lifted voluntary water conservation measures for residents in Liverpool and parts of Brooklyn. (0xCoffe via Pixabay)<\/p><\/div>\n

Municipal water customers in Liverpool and Brooklyn don’t have to worry about tightening their taps.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Region of Queens announced Wednesday afternoon that it has lifted voluntary water conservation measures that residents and businesses were under since early November.<\/span><\/p>\n

The region said in a news release that recent rainfall has restored the Town Lake Reservoir to appropriate levels.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The reservoir is still not at full capacity, the region says, but there is enough water so that people don\u2019t have to worry about watching their consumption.<\/span><\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, Mayor Scott Christian told QCCR that the region has been working with officials in the provincial Emergency Management Office to look for ways to replenish the reservoir if needed.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are alternatives and secondary water sources that we could access water from if push came to shove, but they\u2019re not potable.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Christian says using those sources would only be a last resort if they needed to feed the system.<\/span><\/p>\n

But people who rely on the region\u2019s water utility don\u2019t have to worry about that for now.<\/span><\/p>\n

If water levels drop again, the region says it will notify users through ads on local radio stations, including QCCR, posts on the region\u2019s Facebook and Twitter accounts and on its website.<\/span><\/p>\n

Email: rickconradqccr@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Listen to the audio version of this story below<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/wateroverdec424.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Municipal water customers in Liverpool and Brooklyn don’t have to worry about tightening their taps. The Region of Queens announced Wednesday afternoon that it has lifted voluntary water conservation measures that residents and businesses were under since early November. The region said in a news release that recent rainfall has restored the Town Lake Reservoir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,5],"tags":[48,1059,39,24,2668,2634,1153,2633,2632,1734],"class_list":["post-7959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community-news","category-news-posts","tag-brooklyn","tag-climate-change","tag-liverpool","tag-region-of-queens","tag-town-lake","tag-town-lake-reservoir","tag-water","tag-water-conservation","tag-water-shortage","tag-water-utility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7959"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7963,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7959\/revisions\/7963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qccrfm.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}