Edwards Aquifer dropping but San Antonio will likely avoid more restrictions

Kaleigh Stewart, 4, plays in the splash pad at Yanaguana Park Tuesday as the weather continued its early-season hot streak.Since the San Antonio Water System began keeping records in 2006, the city of San Antonio has never had to declare its most severe drought restrictions for SAWS customers., which limit the watering of residential lawns to once per week at specified times, for SAWS customers often over the past 16 years.

For both the EAA and city, Stage 1 drought restrictions are triggered when the Edwards Aquifer’s monitoring well drops below an average of 660 feet above sea level for 10 days, while Stage 2 is triggered when that average drops below 650 feet.While the EAA’s Stage 3 is triggered when the Edwards Aquifer’s monitoring well drops below an average of 640 feet for 10 days, the city evaluates at this point whether further restrictions are needed.

The trigger for the Edwards Aquifer Authority’s Stage 3 restrictions are drawing near — the monitoring well’s current 10-day average is about 644 feet above sea level, just 4 feet from triggering Stage 3.

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