Drought may lead to water restrictions

@ledgercity BARTOW – Polk County officials on Monday urged residents in Southwest Polk County to stick to watering their lawns no more than twice a week after its 3,400 customers used twice as much reclaimed water last week in the drought-stricken area as the previous one. “If we don’t get rain and don’t get compliance voluntarily, we may have to go to mandatory one-day-per-week watering,” County Manager Jim Freeman said during an agenda study. Marjorie Craig, director of Polk County Utilities, said she and others can’t remember a time in the Southwest area where the county has been required to issue a warning. “We’re…

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