Members,
The water we trucked up from 42 AS Road last week carried us through the weekend but our current rate of consumption exceeds our wells production. The board is working diligently to get a weekly trucking commitment from Tucson Bulk Water or if Mike cannot commit to a schedule the board, during the last board meeting, approved an emergency purchase of a potable water trailer. That trailer is at least 1 week out (up to 4 weeks) so given the emergency we are going to run a test tonight which will hopefully give the data to avoid a second unplanned outage.
This test tonight is a planned outage. At 8PM we will close the outlet valves from our water storage yards. Shortly thereafter the system pressure will drop low enough the District members will have no water service. We will enable the system at 7AM tomorrow morning. The board is doing this because even though its less than daytime demand the nighttime demand exceeds our production capability and because this time period has the lowest impact on our members. This is a one night test which will allow us to review the data. If this test succeeds the board will review the need for future planned outages during the next board meeting.