Water Wise Denton

We are very excited to have finally received some rain! Please help us use the rain to its full benefit - adjust your sprinklers to skip today/ tomorrows watering so we can reduce the amount of water we need to pull from the lake.

Friendly reminder that there is an annual watering ordinance which prohibits the watering of lawns from 10 am to 6 pm from June 1 through September 30.

Lake Levels continue to drop, Lewisville is now down to 81.8% and Ray Roberts is down to 94.1%

Please continue to conserve, forecasted rain is not a guarantee, and conservation matters both in time of drought and time of plenty.

Have you seen the wonderful news? North Texas is supposed to receive a cool front next Monday! The outside is once again habitable and many of us will have the urge to garden again. As things become green once more, remember to plant drought tolerant plants, trees, and shrubs so that your investment lasts through next summer.

A great choice is Grapes! Grapes have extensive root systems, which allow them to survive when other plants succumb to the heat. There are many varieties that thrive in Zone 8, and muscadine grapes do exceptionally well in this area.

Lake Lewisville water levels are now down to 83.7%, having dropped from 92.4% just one month prior.

Built in 1955, Lake Lewisville is one of the two water sources for Denton.

Did you know that fall is the best time to plant fruit trees in North Texas? Because our summers are so hot, planting a fruit tree in spring often does not give the tree an opportunity to grow and establish deep roots for drought tolerance before the heat sets in. Planting in fall allows the tree to grow deep roots, go through dormancy in winter, then awaken with the rest of the earth in spring to continue to grow roots, taking full advantage of the entire spring season. A great choice for fruit tree is the pomegranate tree. Native to the desert, this fruit tree thrives on little care and in extreme heat and drought conditions. In the event we have to go into watering restrictions, the pomegranate will still thrive , even under the most restricted outdoor watering.

We have hit a new demand high of 41.9 MGD, which is only .6 MGD shy of the stage 1 drought restriction trigger. Please conserve and irrigate only when you absolutely must, no more than twice a week and only between 6pm and 10am.

Around Labor Day, us North Texans know that better days are just around the corner. To say we are ready for the cooler temperatures of fall is an understatement. The lakes would agree with us. Lake Levels continue to drop, Ray Roberts is down 5% and Lewisville is down 16%. We won't likely need to put watering restrictions in place due to lake levels this year, but we continue to get close to demand based restrictions. Please hang in there and continue to use water wisely so that we can avoid restrictions.

Denton pulls water from both lake Lewisville and lake Ray Roberts. Ray Roberts has decreased by 5% over the last 3 months, Lake Lewisville has decreased by by 14.6% over the last 3 months. Please continue to conserve. For More information on our lake levels visit Water data for Texas at: https://waterdatafortexas.org/reservoirs/statewide

As we continue to get closer to stage 1 drought restrictions, we want to encourage our customers to save water and limit landscape watering to trees, shrubs and plants no more than twice weekly. Green grass is not sustainable in this heat.