As many of you are aware, Larimer County residents who utilize water supplied through the Ft. Collins Water Treatment Plant (including City of Fort Collins, West Fort Collins, ELCO and Ft. Collins/ Loveland Water customers) will be asked to curtail their lawn watering beginning October 1, 2020.

This unusual request is being made as water that is typically supplied by the Big Thompson Water Diversion will no longer be made available while improvements are being made to the Soldier Canyon Intake at Horsetooth Reservoir. Starting on October 1st, all of the aforementioned water purveyors will be drawing their water out of the Poudre River in a significantly reduced capacity.

Since over 50% of our summertime water usage is typically used to keep our lawns green and healthy, this request is expected to ease the demand on our limited water supply while the water treatment plant undergoes the proposed construction work. Although many of our lawns will "take a hit" when we turn off our sprinkler systems, most of the lawns will simply go into a dormant state and should recover next Spring when we turn our systems back on.

Please understand this does NOT mean that Alpenglow Sprinkler will be able to winterize all of its customers during the first week or two of October, although we intend to winterize as many systems as possible during that time! We are asking our customers to turn off their sprinkler controllers on the evening of September 30th, as well as the water feed to those systems, and to be sure to schedule their sprinkler blowout! Since the temperatures are prone to falling below 32 degrees F, drainage of the above-ground pipes is also recommended until the system is properly winterized.