[HollyMutual-Announce] Whitehall well out of operation

[Holly Mutual Water Company]

All:

Colorado Water Well called to report the well pump at the Whitehall 
well is currently non-functional. They are making arrangements to pull 
the pump to determine what it will take to fix it, but that is not 
expected to complete until next week. In the interim we are reduced to 
operating with only the Piedmont well.

The only good news is the Piedmont well is our most productive well, 
and has the larger storage tank. However our initial calculations 
indicate it cannot handle the entire irrigation demand on its own. To 
maximize our water distribution, we need to ensure that storage tank is 
always filled by midnight, limiting the number of hours we can supply 
water.

Being highly optimistic, we are scaling back our distribution hours to 
between midnight and 8:00 am, effective immediately. If the Piedmont 
well runs dry before 8:00 am, we will be forced to further reduce the 
distribution time, by starting sometime after midnight. Regardless, it 
is essential that all homeowners follow their two-day-a-week watering 
schedule, so we can all use our shares.

Thanks,
Mark Derbyshire


PS. When we have reduced our operating schedule in the past, several 
homeowners have voiced concerns about having to reprogram their 
irrigation controllers to accommodate varying distribution times. There 
is a reasonable solution to this problem. Instead of running through 
each irrigation zone once during a watering night, many controllers can 
be programmed to run multiple, shorter cycles. For example, instead of 
running one cycle from midnight to 10:00 am, one could run five, two 
hour cycles. This will provide more balanced watering to all irrigation 
zones, even when the well distribution times change, without having to 
reprogram timers.