The News Review:

- ADWR water supply ruling
- Chill chokes water supply
- Metro water plan: What level of commitment?
- Tough choices on Delta await state officials
- Study to help cities in Muskegon County plan future water needs
- Sinkhole To Be Tapped For Water Supply
- Low Temps Cause Water Main Break

ADWR water supply ruling
Prescott Daily Courier AZ 
Sandy Fabritz-Whitney assistant director of water management for the Arizona Department Water Resources reported this week that a three-day appeal hearing on her department’s November ruling on Prescott’s use of Big Chino water would take place on Feb. Meanwhile the matter went before a judge to begin consideration of the five-count legal complaint that SRP filed Monday against the state and the City of Prescott over that November ruling.

Chill chokes water supply
Chronicle-Telegram H 
gif’>AVN LAKE — Several communities have been asked to conserve water through the end of today after ice from Lake Erie clogged pipelines Saturday causing water shortages and reduced pressure throughout Lorain and Medina counties. John Knipper of the Avon Lake Water Department said residents in Avon Avon Lake Sheffield Lake Sheffield Village North Ridgeville and most of Medina County as well as customers of Rural Lorain County Water Authority came very close to a boil advisory Saturday. “We have two intake pipes that get our water from Lake Erie into the plant” Knipper said. “Normally we have the capacity to bring in about 50 to 54 million gallons a day. ” Saturday’s ice reduced intake to about 4 million gallons and water pressure dropped — especially in the southeast quadrant of Avon Lake Knipper said.

Metro water plan: What level of commitment?
Atlanta Journal Constitution  USA 
During the worst drought anyone has seen when the region’s main water source Lake Lanier dropped to record-low levels that set off alarm bells from the state Capitol to the White House detractors say metro Atlanta’s best water-planning effort offers few new ideas and relies on 20th-century solutions. The plan calls for more dependence on Lanier and Lake Allatoona and building six small reservoirs. The Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District’s draft proposal which is out for public comment through Jan. 31 introduces only two new water-conservation measures from its original 2003 plan. Those call for requiring government buildings to install ultra-low-flow toilets and urinals and requiring newly built carwashes to recycle their water. Measures continued from the first plan include increasing rates for water particularly for sprinkling lawns and filling swimming pools; requiring multifamily buildings to install water meters for each unit; reducing water leaks from publicly owned pipes; and conducting residential and commercial water audits. Because of improvements in plumbing fixtures and natural attrition of old equipment the 15-county district would shave off 5 percent of its future water use by doing nothing the next three decades.

Tough choices on Delta await state officials
Daily Democrat CA 
The issue is moving forward mostly in two plans. ne known as the Delta Vision has been forwarded to Schwarzenegger. It includes a peripheral canal in a sweeping package of water supply and environmental initiatives that was put together by among others leading opponents of the original Peripheral Canal which voters rejected in 1982. Schwarzenegger’s advisers have endorsed most of the package but it is unclear how it would be implemented. The other plan known as the Bay-Delta Conservation Plan is a narrower strategy still being negotiated among water users and regulators with strong guidance from the administration. It is meant to get regulatory approval for a canal. Details — especially how big it would be and how it would be used — have yet to be defined which hasn’t stopped many from declaring they are for it or against it.

Study to help cities in Muskegon County plan future water needs
MLive.com MI 
The municipalities have focused on securing funds to purchase an expensive software program H20NET that will analyze water demand requirements of future developments size water pipelines and storage tanks and ensure sufficient fire flows and pressures. H20NET has been used by the Muskegon water system for some years including the system’s last reliability update in 2001 said Robert Veneklasen director of Muskegon’s water filtration plant. That study which also looked at the city’s water treatment system led to a 2004-05 capital expansion that elevated the Muskegon system’s water pumping capacity from 28 to 40 millions of gallons a day. Just how and where that added pumping capacity will eventually translate into new transmission lines and new water customers is part of the job facing Black & Veatch Veneklasen said.
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Sinkhole To Be Tapped For Water Supply
Tampa Tribune FL 
The pumping expected to start late this month or early in February should help Tampa Bay region’s water supply but pumping the Morris Bridge sinkhole in 2000 and 2001 caused wells of some nearby residents to go dry. The Southwest Florida Water Management District plans to take about 3. 8 million gallons a day for a month from the sinkhole and send it to the bypass canal where it can go into the region’s supply. After the 30-day test the water management district would have to issue an emergency order if Tampa Bay Water asks to continue tapping the sinkhole. The pumping is to test whether the sinkhole can provide some of the water needed to ensure fresh water for the Hillsborough River downstream of the dam that forms Tampa’s reservoir on the river.

Low Temps Cause Water Main Break
MSNBC 
The water supply also had to be turned off from McMurray Drive to Greentree Street. The road was taken down to one lane in both directions. Workers said they weren’t sure how long it will take to repair the main.