KITTERY, Maine (WGME) — Starting Monday, people in Kittery are being asked to cut down their water use.<\/p>\n
The restrictions are indefinite, and people who don’t comply could face hundreds of dollars in fines and have their water shut off.<\/p>\n
The town says the new rules are due to declining water supply levels and dry conditions.<\/p>\n
The restrictions apply to all Kittery Water District customers.<\/p>\n
For lawn watering, customers are limited to two days a week between 8 p.m. and 7 a.m.<\/p>\n
Odd-numbered addresses can water their lawns on Mondays and Thursdays, while even-numbered addresses can water on Tuesdays and Fridays. No lawn watering is allowed on Saturdays or Sundays.<\/p>\n
The water district says a first violation of the lawn-watering restrictions will result in a written warning. A second violation carries a $100 fine, while a third violation carries a $500 fine and could result in the customer’s water being shut off.<\/p>\n
Residents are also encouraged to limit outdoor water use, run appliances only with full loads and repair any leaks.<\/p>\n
The restrictions will remain in effect until further notice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KITTERY, Maine (WGME) — Starting Monday, people in Kittery are being asked to cut down their water use.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":816670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-816669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=816669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/816670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=816669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=816669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=816669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}