On May 1, Metro Vancouver will skip Stage 1 of water restrictions and move straight to Stage 2.
“We really need folks to pay attention to that outdoor use this year,” Linda Parkinson with Metro Vancouver Water Services said on Friday.
Officials say it is unprecedented this early in the year to move to Stage 2, but with a dry forecast and a low snowpack, it is necessary.
“Like the province announced on Friday, we’re also being told to prepare for drought conditions this summer,” Parkinson said. “So we’re looking at an El Niño summer.”
Metro Vancouver is also pointing to a strain on the system from the ongoing water supply tunnel replacement through Stanley Park.
Under Stage 2 conditions, all residential and non-residential lawn watering is banned.
Residents can water trees, shrubs and flowers any day from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m. if using an automatic or manual sprinkler, or any time if hand watering or using drip irrigation. Hoses must have an automatic shut-off nozzle.
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Vegetable gardens can be watered at any time.
Non-residential property owners can water trees, shrubs, and flowers any day from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. if using an automatic or manual sprinkler, or any time if hand watering or using drip irrigation. Hoses must have an automatic shut-off nozzle.
Vegetable gardens can be watered at any time.
“Lawns will go brown in the summer, and they will start to bounce back in the fall,” Jerry Dobrovolny, Metro Vancouver CAO, said.
Parkinson said there are other bans around pressure washing and other restrictions posted online.
“We do expect that we will need to go to Stage 3 in early June, and we’ll continue to share information as it becomes available,” Dobrovolny said.
Stage 3 has not been activated since 2015.
It would include bans on washing vehicles and filling pools or hot tubs without a permit.
Metro Vancouver is reassuring the public that there is no shortage of drinking water.
I don’t understand why the use of power washers isn’t also excluded under Stage 2 restrictions. The water waste from these machines is enormous.
I don’t think Roy’s been around here for a long time. It’s funny how some crippled old man said something that hurt your feelings once and you still copy his name on here. Damn you white trash warriors are sensitive 🤣🤣
Fake Roy Stephenson – Your desperation speaks volumes buddy
Does that mean no watering FIFA soccer fields,and what lie will we hear this time as to why its ok upposed to taxpayers lawns.r Screw a city for a soccer game
Me and my bestie jv only drink fire water it makes us so brave or braves the white man got us hooked on it we blame them for all our problems.
Come, Get a Beating – Thanks for letting us know that you’ll be the first idiot to die if our society experiences any sort of catastrophic event
FEAR MONGERING NEVER ENDS
Regarding stage 2 water restrictions by May 2, Metro Vancouver states that ” there is no shortage of drinking water.”
Isn’t ALL our water ‘drinking water’? as often quoted by Kristi Gordon, Global weather window.
Bend over sheep. Government daddy is speaking.
Bet the huge exorbitant cash overun from the North Shore water treatment plant, could have been used towards more fresh water.
No one is accountable is the true issue here.
More more people to the province, but no plans for more water. In a province that sends water to the USA….pathetic politicians!
Build more and more condos, and yet no planning for the future, of our water.
Perhaps people should be paying per
bathroom in a home. Does a house really need ten bathrooms?
Our neighbours do not have a meter, and therefore water whenever they want, as they are paying so much yearly for water.
Another easy fix… STOP sending our water over to California!!!
Old white men and Chinese people won’t listen. They never do
Has anyone been affected by the European chafer beetle? They have been destroying lawns throughout the Lower Mainland, as they did in my entire neighbourhood. They love drought stressed lawns.
Re water restrictions,isn’t it more about the water that will be used for FIFA and 1 more suck it up to the taxpayers ,may be some 1 could give us the amount of water that will be used for FIFA just the fields usage which is alot apparently
The restrictions are a symptom of the failure of Metro Vancouver to increase the water supply. It is not that difficult. There is no reason we should ever have any water restrictions at all with the amount of fresh water we have available.
This is absolutly crazy. Stage 2 water restrictions are to be implemented when resevoirs are low. They are not!!! We need further answers on who recommended these restrictions and not low elevation weather station data that was shown on the news hour
If you are allowed to wash vehicles or use a power washer or water other plants, you should be allowed to choose between that and watering your lawn by hand once a week. This is a terrible fire hazard if you’re near a forest. Grass needs a once week watering at minimum.