On Friday, August 25 the city announced that on Monday, August 28, the city would enter Phase 2 of the Drought Contingency Plan. The original impetus was a request received from the City of Houston, as the City of Houston entered Phase 2 of their plan. However, over the weekend of August 26-27 the City hit a Phase 2 triggering event of water production capacity reaching 95 percent of the safe water production capacity of the city.
City staff have been actively monitoring water usage and production capacity since July. As of August 31 water production capacity has been below 95 percent of the safe water production capacity of the city for three consecutive days. Staff have determined that a move to Phase 1 of our Drought Contingency Plan will be sufficient to meet the 10% water reduction goal that is mandatory from the City of Houston.
As such the starting August 31 the City of Jersey Village is moving to Phase 1 of our Drought Contingency Plan. The goal of this phase is to meet the reduction required by the City of Houston and to bring water production below 90 percent of the production capacity of the city.
As part of this plan mandatory water restrictions are in place for all residents and public landscaping areas. Water customers shall limit the irrigation of landscaped areas to Mondays and Thursdays for customers with a street address ending in an even number (0, 2, 4, 6 or 8), and Tuesdays and Fridays for water customers with a street address ending in an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7 or 9), and to irrigate landscapes only between the hours of midnight and 9:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. to midnight on designated watering days.
Some residents have had questions about the differences between the Phases of the Drought Contingency Plan for the City of Jersey Village and the City of Houston. Jersey Village and Houston have different triggering events and different water use reduction goals as part of their plans. Click here to view the City of Jersey Village Plan and click here to view the City of Houston Plan.
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality requires every city to update its plan every five years. The Jersey Village plan will be updated no later than April 2024. As part of that process the city will be soliciting feedback from residents on the plan. Please be on the lookout for that in early 2024.
If there are questions on the current stage of our drought contingency plan please contact city hall at 713-466-2100.