JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The St. Johns River Water Management District declared a \u201cModified Phase II Severe Water Shortage\u201d on Tuesday for portions of Baker, Bradford and Clay, Duval, Flagler, Nassau, Putnam, and St. Johns counties within the District.<\/p>\n
Action News Jax told you last month<\/a> when the district issued a \u201cPhase I Moderate Water Shortage.\u201d<\/p>\n >>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n The decision is due to \u201ccontinued declines in groundwater levels and reduced surface water flows\u201d following precipitation deficits.<\/p>\n The District is asking that even though Daylight Saving Time on March 8 would allow for two days a week of watering on irrigation schedules, landowners continue to water just one day per week due to the water shortage.<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Like the Phase I declaration, the Phase II order encourages voluntary water reductions. This includes public supply, commercial, industrial, institutional, agricultural, landscape, recreation and aesthetic uses.<\/p>\n Property owners and managers are encouraged to plan for the potential of extended dry conditions and the possibility of mandatory restrictions should the shortage advance to a more severe phase.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n Action News Jax Top Stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"JACKSONVILLE, Fla. \u2014 The St. Johns River Water Management District declared a \u201cModified Phase II Severe Water Shortage\u201d…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":150803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[44699,72792,72793,6126,72794,68012,72795,50314,116,118,117,34184,67144,72796,15603,5594,42459,45468,72797,61714,4103,72798],"class_list":["post-177139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-bathroom","tag-beige-tiles","tag-chrome","tag-close-up","tag-drops","tag-faucet","tag-flowing","tag-hygiene","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-kitchen","tag-plumbing","tag-refreshing","tag-resource","tag-saving","tag-shiny","tag-sink","tag-space-for-text","tag-surface","tag-water","tag-water-flow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/150803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}