{"id":5348,"date":"2011-04-27T14:06:33","date_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=5348"},"modified":"2011-04-27T14:20:33","modified_gmt":"2011-04-27T19:20:33","slug":"in-which-being-off-the-city-water-system-suddenly-became-a-very-good-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/04\/27\/in-which-being-off-the-city-water-system-suddenly-became-a-very-good-thing\/","title":{"rendered":"In which being off the city water system suddenly became a very good thing"},"content":{"rendered":"

W<\/span>ow, I’m still in shock over the news today<\/a> of a summer-long outdoor water ban<\/a> for Barrhaven, Riverside South and Manotick. According to the news so far, the ban will prohibit not just lawn-watering and car-washing, but sprinklers and kiddie pools, too.<\/p>\n

\nOTTAWA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The City of Ottawa is immediately banning on all outdoor water use in Barrhaven, Riverside South and Manotick, which is expected to last until as late as mid-August.<\/p>\n

That means almost 27,000 homes in these south-city communities will be prohibited from watering their gardens, filling splash pads or pools, car washing or even running a sprinkler.<\/p>\n

Nancy Schepers, a deputy city manager, told council Wednesday morning the ban is necessary as the city replaces the Woodroffe water main, which experienced its second break in January. There is a backup water main system that can deliver enough water for drinking and other normal indoor uses, but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153it does not have the capacity to meet spring and summer demand.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

The ban is in place, said Schepers, to safeguard the quality and quantity of drinking water.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It was about the third time I re-read the article with exponentially-increasing dread and outrage that I realized — hey, wait a minute, we’re not on city water. So while I’m relieved that we’ll be able to run the sprinkler and fill a kiddie pool, I’m still disappointed that our favourite splash pad will be out of commission for most of the year and I simply can’t imagine not being able to even water the flowers for a whole summer. Wow.<\/p>\n

And suddenly living on a well and septic system doesn’t seem as intimidating and fraught with peril as it did last fall<\/a>. It’s nice not having the $60 water bill every month, and the quality of our water is amazing now that we’ve upgraded the pump, water softener and filters.<\/p>\n

I’m still ambivalent about the septic part, though. Now that the snow is melted, I’m making an effort to pace the lawn around the septic bed once a week or so to make sure the ground hasn’t gone spongy on me. One of these days I may even stop flinching every single time I flush the toilet, so deep run my fears of a sudden catastrophic failure of our septic system.<\/p>\n

Anyone from Barrhaven up for a weekend car-washing party at my house this summer? \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wow, I’m still in shock over the news today of a summer-long outdoor water ban for Barrhaven, Riverside South and Manotick. According to the news so far, the ban will prohibit not just lawn-watering and car-washing, but sprinklers and kiddie pools, too. OTTAWA \u00e2\u20ac\u201d The City of Ottawa is immediately banning on all outdoor water … Continue reading “In which being off the city water system suddenly became a very good thing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-postcards-from-manotick","category-the-ongoing-saga-of-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5348"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5355,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5348\/revisions\/5355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}