Southern Village "Club"

This is the site, apparently, for the Southern Village pool and tennis club, now under new ownership. The site was not working when I tried to access it on 27 April 2008.

chapelhillnews.com | Use every room

OWASA - Supply and Demand Graphs

It is really impressive to see how much we have reduced water consumption. What is not clear is how this was accomplished. Who reduced use and by how much? Across the board? Key players?

Area Tap Water Has Traces of Medicines - washingtonpost.com

Is OWASA planning to do similar tests here?

"Police release photo of suspect in ...." - Herald-Sun

The linked story includes a photo of a suspect in the death of Eve CARSON, the UNC student body president. Police contact information is also included.

"Grow a business" - newsobserver.com

"If your love for plants has ever left you dreaming of owning a plant shop, this could be your opportunity to turn pleasure into a business. Bloom -- Where You Are Planted, a garden, gift and home shop in Southern Village in Chapel Hill, is for sale. After five years in business, owner Rena Earnhardt is looking for someone to take over Bloom. Said Earnhardt in an e-mail: 'My lease is up and they wanted me to renew but I don't have the energy for five more years. I have one little girl and she is 12, and I feel like it is an important time to be around.' For more information, contact Earnhardt at 708 Market St. in Southern Village. Or call 942-9880. To visit Bloom online, mosey over to www.BloomNC.com."

6.976 million gallons yesterday

This is only at the average level of the last 30 days. We must do a lot better than that!

More water numbers....

Here are the latest numbers:

(March 02, 2008):
6.459 million gallons

(March 01, 2008):
6.439 million gallons

(February 29, 2008):
6.673 million gallons

These last two numbers are especially encouraging. I guess we really do not know if this is the result of the Stage 3 rules or just the result of people focusing more on water usage as a result of the added publicity given to the subject in connection with imposing those new restrictions.

6.969 million gallons yesterday

We need to understand what the different demands were between yesterday and the day before.

Another big picture item is to understand what are the largest pieces of the "pie" that make up about 7 million gallons/day. How much does UNC use? How much at UNC Hospitals? In what other ways, can the use be broken down into smaller pieces and how can we all watch their day-by-day consumption?

6.912 million gallons yesterday

Who used so much more water two days ago than yesterday (7.203 million gallons two days ago)?

Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight

Interesting statistics released today that view overall North Carolina real estate values and trends from a national perspective. See pages 25-26.

Comparing us with Raleigh.....

This from Dale Crisp, DirectorPublic Utilities Department, One Exchange Plaza, Suite 620Raleigh, NC 27602 919-857-4540 today, by e-mail:"We do not publish these numbers, rather we utilize the media to get this information to the public. Since going to mandatory restrictions that totally eliminated lawn irrigation in October, the demand has averaged 40.3 MGD. This past weekend (Fri, Sat and Sun) the average customer demand was 37.3 .MGD - 3 MGD less."

Last weekend, we were above our average demand for the same period. Why? What explains this?

7.203 million gallons

Surely, there must be an explanation from which we can learn a lot as to why this number was so much higher yesterday? Is the consumption being measured accurately?

Last three days, starting yesterday 7.061, 6.833, 6.689 million gallons

That's not the right trendline. Why does this seem to rise each Sunday? What happens in the OWASA service areas on Sunday?

Cannot we mount a concerted effort to reduce this number, starting with Southern Village?

Downtown Chapel Hill

Above is a map of what the Downtown Chapel Hill business organization says is "downtown".

Town Hall Grill

Is this all there is to the Town Hall Grill website? Perhaps with this announcement something more will emerge? Here are two more earlier announcements - ownership change and new manager.

7.015 million gallons on Thursday

Why are we going up?

6.902 million gallons yesterday

There is a need to make this go in the other direction. We used more yesterday than the previous day.....

6.830 million gallons yesterday

I hope OWASA can explain why it thinks there are these daily fluctuations. Who used so much more water two days ago than yesterday?

7.294 million gallons yesterday

That's about 1,000,000 gallons more than 14 February. WHY??????? What was different about 14 Feb than 18 Feb?