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[Darthvader]

Basically because Americans have become a people of excess. We use resources without thinking about how it affects those around us or our future. Everyone is always so focused on their own comfort in the here and now that nothing else matters.

I've seen knuckleheads watering their lawns everyday this week, such a waste.

[ducky]

I've seen knuckleheads watering their lawns everyday this week, such a waste.

I can one-up that. I saw a guy using a hose to shoot about ten leaves off of his lawn.
Raking and sweeping are actually good forms of exercise. Try it folks.

[Deb aka Resume Lady]

Welp, there goes our plans of building a vegetable garden this spring.

Build it, but use a drip system.

[AMETHYST PRODUCTIVITY]

Build it, but use a drip system.

We are in the process of building a huge vegetable garden with raised beds. I have no problem using water to grow healthy foods that will nourish both my family and the atmosphere. I won't be washing my car or wasting water if at all possible.

I keep large plastic containers in my kitchen and whenever I need to run the tap to get the water hot, I save the water to use for watering.

[MikeinFolsom]

There are many different types of drip systems and emitters you can use for your garden. I think you'll be more than fine in planting a garden.

[Robert Gary]

You are correct. The water level is up quiet a bit. Its almost high enough to reopen the Hobbie Ramp at Brown's Ravine. I think we only have 3 feet more to go before the ramp reopens. I watch the water level everyday hoping for a good boating year.

-Robert

Wow I try to drive out to the lake at least once a week when I'm on the Granite Bay side servicing properties. I could have sworn the lake looked like it was about 20 ft higher than it had been the week prior. I took my wife out on a weekend and we drove around out there, when I went back last week the rocks that you see on the Granite Bay side that look like this ////// <----- hard for me to describe but used to be completely visible with the waterline being some 20-30 yards from the rocks had now been covered with water, only half of the rock formations were showing.

[Robert Gary]

Am I missing something? I don't see anything in stage 3 that isn't in stage 2. You can even still wash your car as long as you have a shutoff nozzle on the hose (which pretty much everyone does unless you like spraying water with your thumb).

-robert

This came from the City of Folsom Website.

C.Stage 3--Water Warning.
1.Water shall be used for beneficial uses; all unnecessary and wasteful uses of water are prohibited.

[camay2327]

Shut the gates to the dam and don't let the water go down river..

[Robert Gary]

NO! We can't do that; it would make the fish sad!

Shut the gates to the dam and don't let the water go down river..

[ducky]

Am I missing something? I don't see anything in stage 3 that isn't in stage 2. You can even still wash your car as long as you have a shutoff nozzle on the hose (which pretty much everyone does unless you like spraying water with your thumb).

-robert

I think there are less days you can run your sprinklers - two days instead of three. Also, there's a limit to watering with a hose to your odd even schedule, which I don't think is in Stage 2.

Camay's got it right. How's about keeping the water in the lake instead of letting it run out.

[4thgenFolsomite]

I think there are less days you can run your sprinklers - two days instead of three. Also, there's a limit to watering with a hose to your odd even schedule, which I don't think is in Stage 2.

Camay's got it right. How's about keeping the water in the lake instead of letting it run out.

well, we don't own the water. not ours.

[camay2327]

NO! We can't do that; it would make the fish sad!

You want water to drink, or do you want to fish.

[ducky]

well, we don't own the water. not ours.

Actually, Folsom has rights to some of it, pre-1913, plus the SoCal contract. Besides, if they let it all run out to the ocean nobody can use it.

[a little bean]

You want water to drink, or do you want to fish.

I'd like to drink, but I'd also like to not be the cause of fish species going into extinction! We're not the sole owners of this planet you know. I'd like to drink, but I would happily have a dead lawn to protect our fragile eco systems.

[Robert Gary]

You want water to drink, or do you want to fish.

Hey, you're not going to get any argument from me on that.

-Robert