“The city's springs are still re-charging very slowly, and we are continuing to ask our water customers to conserve water and observe voluntary restrictions on water use,” continued Scruggs. Most of the county has enjoyed seasonal scattered showers and the tender box conditions of a week or two ago have eased considerably.
However, the City of Red Boiling Springs joined Lafayette this week in asking for voluntary conservation measures by their water customers.
“One of our springs (the McClellan Spring) dropped two inches overnight,” reported City Recorder Coby Knight on Friday, June 29. RBS Water Dept. supervisor Brian Long said residents are being asked to refrain from watering lawns and washing cars until the still existing regional drought conditions ease.
Nestle Waters North America is currently using no water from either Lafayette or Red Boilings Springs. “During drought conditions we attempt to diversify our sources of water,” plant manager Mark Smidebush told the Celina newspaper, the Citizen-Statesman when queried about tanker trucks being filled from Celina water hydrants.
Smidebush said the plant's supply of water to bottle is subject to available natural resources in the area. “We always have contingency source planning, including buying and tankering from Celina,” said Smidebush.
He added that it is unusual for the plant to have to buy water from outside sources. The plant's spring-fed sources on Salt Lick Creek are currently supplying the bulk of the water bottled in Red Boiling Springs.
Nestle is the largest producer of bottled water in the world. The company purchased the Bennett Hill Spring in Red Boiling Springs in 2001 and constructed an impressive new bottling plant in 2004. At various times it has purchased additional water from both Lafayette and Red Boiling Springs city systems.
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