BELLBROOK — Bellbrook leaders are asking people to conserve water because of the drought across the Miami Valley.
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Officials in the community are concerned about the impact the long-term lack of rain is having on their water supply.
They’re asking people to think about not washing their cars or watering lawns because the water table level has been dropping, especially severely in the last two weeks.
“We’re not in a drought, in terms of stating that for our water supply. We’re not in an emergency, we’re just in an awareness stage,” said Rob Schommer, Bellbrook City Manager.
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City leaders want to make sure, if there would be a large fire there will be no problems with water supply but In Dayton, at least for now, there are no water concerns.
“We always monitor what our water levels are and we’re normal for this time of year, because we are a groundwater system,” said Keshia Kinney, Dayton Division of Water Supply Manager.
Kinney said Dayton uses the Miami Valley Buried Aquifer for water supply.
They have two sprawling well-fields that draw water from that deep aquifer. The system, which supplies water for the city, and for Montgomery County’s water system too, pumps about 65 million gallons of water a day.
“We’re not in a place where we’re considering doing any form of restrictions,” Kinney said.
Dayton residents are happy about the good water supply. They’d still like to see rain because it’s too costly now to water lawns.
Dayton has the ability with its well-field to comfortably pump up to 160 million gallons a day, so for now, they are in great shape but communities that use surface water supplies could increasingly be looking at restrictive measures if we do not get measurable rain soon.
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