Woodbury Water Usage Well Down So Far This Year

Last September, Woodbury was on pace for record water usage.

The weather this year, of course, has been a bit different.

Comparing last year’s water-usage figures for Jan. 1 to June 10 to this year’s, Woodbury has used 180 million fewer gallons, City Administrator Clint Gridley said at Wednesday night’s council meeting.

“Frankly, we fell that’s a good thing,” he said.

The bulk of the state was under a drought last summer, and Woodbury was on a clip to use a record amount of water.

The previous record was in 2007, when Woodbury used 2.88 billion gallons of water. Over the past few years that figure has hovered closer to 2.4 billion to 2.5 billion.

All of Woodbury is served by well water, and the city has an odd-even policy for allowing people to irrigate their lawns.

Homes whose addresses end with odd numbers water on odd-numbered calendar days, even on even (including 0). It’s also prohibited to water between noon and 5 p.m. each day for every home/business in the city.