UPDATE
By Keiron McCammon, Treasurer YOU SHOULD BE AWARE BY NOW that due to
issues with our Water Company’s wells, the Board of Directors had to institute an irrigation prohibition as of April 1st for the foreseeable future. Due to the rules and regulations we have to follow as a property owners association, there may be some confusion regarding the prohibition’s timing. The Board first issued an emergency rule change, as you were hopefully notified (http:// bit.ly/tkpoa-emergency-rule), that went into effect from April 1st through July 8th. Emergency rules can only go into effect for up to one hundred and twenty days. Therefore, the Board also put out, for 28-day review, a permanent rule change (http://bit.ly/tkpoairrigation-prohibition-rule) that prohibits landscape irrigation from April 1st through November 1st. This will likely be approved during the May 19th Board Meeting. So, at this time, landscape irrigation is prohibited throughout the summer. So what are we doing about it? Health and safety is job number one. With two of our wells shut down (due to elevated uranium levels), the Board’s immediate concern was to ensure our Water Company could continue to provide safe drinking water. To this end, the Board approved $600,000 of emergency reserve expenditure to purchase six temporary uranium treatment units to be installed at the two shut down wells. These units will allow us to pump a limited capacity of safe drinking from each well to supplement our remaining unaffected well (and ensure that we don’t have a single point of failure in our water system). That said, all three wells’ total capacity would still be below the typical peak demand we see through the summer due to irrigation. By eliminating irrigation, we ensure we can provide safe drinking water throughout the Tahoe Keys (barring any further catastrophes). The procurement and installation of these treatment facilities are underway. We expect
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