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Alpine monitors water usage October 21, 2017, 9:36 amAt a July 25 city council meeting, Mayor Sheldon Wimmer said he receives phone calls regularly from residents complaining that their neighbors are overwatering and said he wanted it addressed. City Councilmember Troy Stout said he would prefer to see someone enforcing water regulations. However, City Manager Shane Sorenson said when public works employees were out working and saw someone watering at the wrong time they would stop and speak to that person but he had no employees he could dedicate to monitor the situation. Sorenson said due to the high demand, pumping costs for the city recently reached $215,000. Additionally, such high usage can cause the pumps to shut down resulting in related repair costs, he said. Wimmer said friendly attempts at education were largely ignored even though the city has been regulating water for the last five years. He suggested that since it was close to the end of the watering year that the council hold-off until next year to fund the position but, in the end, the council voted unanimously to create the position. The community news source for Eagle Mountain Utah, Saratoga Springs Utah, Lehi Utah, American Fork Utah, Highland Utah, Alpine Utah, and The Cedar Valley, including Cedar Fort Utah and Fairfield Utah. Copyright 2024 The Crossroads Journal LLC. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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