Indoor water use mostly back to normal
Beginning today, The City is lifting indoor water-saving measures for residents and businesses.
The City has started to gradually flow water from the Bearspaw Water Treatment Plant through the feeder main and into the rest of the water network. Calculations demonstrate confidence that the system is ready to ease back into regular indoor water usage.
This doesn’t mean that everyone should take a shower, flush all the toilets and do all the laundry all at once. Until the stabilization process is complete, we are still asking Calgarians to be mindful of their indoor water use and help us ease back to normal by running laundry and dishwashers at full loads and spacing them out throughout the week so we don’t overwork the system.
Our system is currently operating at a 50 per cent capacity now and we still depend on Calgarians as we continue to stabilize.
We will be resuming all City services that use water indoors such as pools, ice rinks and recreation centres. Over the coming days, more updates will be shared on calgary.ca.
The following updates are available today:
All customers will receive an email from The City confirming program updates.
While we are confident that we can currently supply enough water for indoor use, we are keeping stage 4 outdoor water restrictions in place, as well as a fire ban. The Glenmore Water Treatment Plant has been operating at 100 per cent capacity as we’ve been bringing the system back online and we want to reduce the demand placed on it. More information on easing outdoor water restrictions will be shared in the coming days as we determine how the system responds to the increased demands.
Spray parks, wading pools and street sweeping remain paused while outdoor water restrictions continue. Updates will be posted on calgary.ca as they become available.
Thank you for all your water conservation efforts over these last weeks. Together, we kept our hospitals and fire response services safe and ready to respond. I deeply appreciate everything you did to help make this possible.