Item 6E - PresentationOrdinance No. 662-G, 2nd Reading, Adopt the 2024 Drought
Contingency Plan.
Item 6E
Requested Action
Ordinance No. 662-G, 2nd Reading, Adopt
the 2024 Drought Contingency Plan.
Ordinance 662-G
Drought Contingency Plan
•Texas Administrative
Code
Title 30, Chapter
288
•Wholesale Water
Contract
Section 2.5
•5-year cycle update
Previous update in
April 2019
Due May 1st, 2024
Ordinance 662-G
2024 Plan
•Continuation of 2019 plan
•Same triggers for each 3
stages, defined by:
Tarrant Regional Water
District (TRWD)
City of Fort Worth
City of Southlake
•Permanent year-round twice
per week landscape
irrigation schedule
Proposed in Water
Conservation Plan
Ordinance 662-G
Drought
Stage Trigger Action
Stage 1 SOUTHLAKE
Water level in the 3 low plane elevated tanks falls
below 18 ft. for 3 consecutive days
Step up enforcement of
twice per week landscape
irrigation schedule.
Stage 2 SOUTHLAKE (with Stage 1 in effect for two weeks)
Water level in the 3 low plane elevated tanks falls
below 18 ft. for 3 consecutive days, OR
Water level in the single high plane elevated tank falls
below 18 ft. for 3 consecutive days
Landscape irrigation
reduced to once per week.
Stage 3 SOUTHLAKE (with Stage 2 in effect for two weeks)
Water level in the 3 low plane elevated tanks falls
below 18 ft. for 3 consecutive days, OR
Water level in the single high plane elevated tank falls
below 18 ft. for 3 consecutive days
Prohibit operation of
sprinklers and landscape
irrigation systems.
Ordinance 662-G
Funding
•No costs involved
•Efforts to conserve water:
Delay & reduce new
supplies
Delay & reduce
delivery pipelines
Delay & reduce
capacity improvements
Saves the City and
customers additional
costs.
Questions?
Rob Cohen (817) 748-8097