PALMDALE – The City of Palmdale is asking residents to turn off their sprinklers during the current cold weather snap as overspray from lawn watering is turning to ice and creating unsafe conditions.
“During this very cold weather we’re experiencing, we’re seeing many areas where overspray is hitting sidewalks and streets and freezing up,” said Palmdale’s Street Maintenance Supervisor Bruce Roadhouse. “This is creating unsafe conditions for pedestrians, especially all the school children who are heading to school in the morning. By turning off your sprinklers or setting them to water later in the day, it will stop this from happening.”
For more information, please contact Public Works at 661-267-5300.
SoCal utilities call for energy conservation
With record cold weather across the Antelope Valley placing a heavy strain on short-term natural gas supplies, utility companies are asking local customers to conserve energy, particularly natural gas.
The following steps can help ensure natural gas supplies are sufficient to meet demand created by the severe winter.
You can conserve energy by lowering your thermostat by 3 to 5 degrees. Lower your furnace thermostat by three to five degrees (health permitting).
- Limit use of non-essential gas appliances, fireplaces and spas.
- Reduce your water heating usage: use less hot water, turn down the water heater thermostat or insulate your water heater.
- Use LED holiday lights, which last longer and use about 70% less energy than incandescent light strings both indoors and outside. Install a timer and set your holiday lights to automatically turn on and off at specific times.
Follow these important safety tips when heating your home to reduce the risk of carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning. Symptoms of CO poisoning can include unexplained nausea, headaches, drowsiness, mental confusion and flu-like symptoms.
- Never use your oven, range or outdoor grill to heat your home because these appliances are not designed for this purpose and can emit dangerous carbon monoxide.
- Install a CO detector or change the batteries in your CO detectors.
- If you suspect that you or a loved one is suffering from CO poisoning, call 911 immediately.
(Information via press releases from the city of Palmdale and Southern California Gas Company.)
*** says
A hater calling out haters? Sounds like Rex, projecting all his sins on others. Again. BTW the plant will be using reclaimed water. But don’t let facts stop your “dead baby” BS.
Son of the Anti Rex says
Sure ***. Don’t let facts get in the way of some good ole Lancaster bull. Didn’t you read where Rex’s lapdog Marv is going to stop the water from flowing for the power plant anyway? Doesn’t matter if the water comes from Palmdale or not, Rex and Marv think this vally is their personal playground and they use it and abuse it as they wish. When are people gonna wake up around here?
john Howard says
This one is for all the haters out there..
-Future headline- Satire
Palmdale to All Antelope Valley residents, “Curtail watering during power plant operation”
The City of Palmdale is asking residents to turn off their water during the operation of the power plant as water evaporation from cooling towers is leaving our aquifer and creating unsafe water conditions for all of the Antelope Valley.
“During operation of the power plant like we’re experiencing, we’re seeing many areas where the water table is hitting bedrock and basically drying up,” said Palmdale’s Power Plant Supervisor Homer Simpson. “This is creating unsafe living conditions for residents, especially all the school children who are require water at school in the morning. By turning off your water or setting them to water later when the power plant is not operating or when the arid desert turns into green forest, it will stop this from happening.”
For more information, please contact Public Works at 661-867-5309.
Reality says
Please make sure to enclose all pools, ponds, water run off collection ditches as well. Washing of cars requires immediate squeegee and draining into a bucket. All swamp coolers are hereby being removed as they are actually evaporative coolers which is just a miniature version of what the power plant will use!
Please.