By resolution adopted in periods of drought,
the Town Board may take the following levels of emergency action:
A. Drought advisory.
(1) All residents of the Town of LaGrange, consisting
of both customers of public water districts or improvements, as well
as owners or occupants of residential or commercial properties with
nonmunicipal sources of water supply, shall be advised that drought
conditions exist and that, without rain, conditions could worsen impairing
the ability of public and private water sources to meet demands. Users
will be requested to voluntarily implement water conservation measures,
such as:
(a)
Limit watering of plants to only those activities
to protect recently planted vegetation.
(c)
Take other precaution to insure that water is
not wasted.
(2) The public shall receive notice of the drought advisory
through a combination of discussion at Board meetings, releases to
the press, posting of notice in the Town Hall, notice issued by the
municipality to the Dutchess County Department of Health, and notices
to be included in the next succeeding water bills issued to public
water supply customers.
B. Drought warning.
(1) Town of LaGrange residents shall be informed that
drought conditions exist, and that both municipal and private water
supplies are stressed. Supplies for normal water usage will consequently
not be available, and mandatory water usage restrictions will be put
in effect, including:
(b)
Even house numbers may water recently planted
vegetation on even days. Odd house numbers may water recently planted
vegetation on odd days.
(d)
No swimming pool filling through the use of private water resources in the Town of LaGrange (use of municipal water supply for that purpose being uniformly prohibited pursuant to §
233-23A of the Town Code).
(2) The drought warning condition and restrictions shall be the subject of the forms of notice set forth hereinabove in Subsection
A, and the additional method of notice of publication in the Town's official newspaper at the commencement of the period of drought warning, and once each month afterwards during the pendency of the drought warning condition and restrictions.
C. Drought emergency.
(1) Water supplies will have difficulty meeting both municipal
and private user demands, and significant reduction in usage is required
to conserve the limited resources available through both public and
private water supply sources and systems. The limitation shall include:
(c)
No swimming pool filling.
(2) The form of notice shall be as provided hereinabove in Subsection
B, and the Town Board may supplement such notice of drought emergency condition and restrictions with information concerning voluntary conservation techniques concerning use of toilet facilities, faucets, shower limitations, and reuse of water for maintaining vegetation.
Persons or entities making use of water supply
not provided by the water districts or improvements of the Town of
LaGrange shall be exempt from the restrictions of this article so
long as, and to the extent that, their source(s) of water supply is
at least 200 feet distant from any other neighboring water supply
source.
This article shall be enforced by the Zoning
Administrator and/or the Building Inspector.
No person or entity shall be penalized under
this article until first receiving a prior written warning. In the
event that the prior written warning of violation of any nonvoluntary
restriction is unheeded, the subsequent violation of such restrictions
set forth in this article shall be an offense punishable by a fine
not less than $100 for the first offense, not less than $250 for the
second offense, and not less than $500 for the third and each subsequent
offense, and/or imprisonment for a maximum period of 15 days after
the second offense. Each day's continuing violation of the restrictions
of this article shall be deemed a separate offense, separately punishable
pursuant to the aforesaid provisions.