Daily water usage in Dallas has averaged 600 million gallons a day throughout August and early September \u2014 a 50% increase from the city\u2019s typical daily usage of about 400 million gallons, according to a Sept. 10 city news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The increased demand, combined with dry soil conditions, is contributing to \u201cincreased breaks and leaks across the drinking water system,\u201d the release said.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Over the past three months, Dallas Water Utilities crews have repaired 310 main line breaks and leaks, 377 service line leaks and 233 hydrants, according to the release. Crews are working extended hours to address repairs, which are handled based on priority level.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Dallas residents can call 3-1-1<\/a>, the city\u2019 non-emergency line, to report water main leaks or breaks. Reports can also be made through Dallas 311\u2019s website<\/a> or the app.\u00a0<\/p>\n The heat may temporarily ease into the 90s early next week, thanks to a weak cold front<\/a>, but high temperatures are expected to remain in place for the near future.\u00a0<\/p>\n Dallas County<\/a> is almost entirely in extreme drought, with several pockets in severe drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor\u2019s Sept. 17 update<\/a>. Similarly, Tarrant, Denton and Collin counties are also primarily experiencing extreme drought.\u00a0<\/p>\n About 18% of Texas is now experiencing extreme drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. Extreme drought conditions mean the affected region is already seeing major crop and pasture losses, as well as widespread water shortages or restrictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daily water usage in Dallas has averaged 600 million gallons a day throughout August and early September \u2014…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5902,102,104,103,152342,3205,88395,58240,17921,88030,87998,410],"class_list":["post-440110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-city-of-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dallas-water","tag-heat","tag-hot-weather","tag-news-weather","tag-service","tag-tp-weather","tag-tp-dallas","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}