The summer’s drought is beginning to ease, and the City of Canandaigua is responding by lifting the water conservation restrictions it imposed a couple of months ago. Canandaigua’s director of public works says the level of Canandaigua Lake has stabilized and it’s above the level at which the city’s permit to pull water from the […]
The continuing drought has forced the City of Canandaigua to impose water use restrictions because of low water levels in Canandaigua Lake. Canandaigua’s Director of Public Works, James Sprague, says irrigation, washing cars at home and filling swimming pools is prohibited for now. Everyone else on the Canandaigua water system is being asked to think […]
Government drought monitors say the drought conditions are easing in the southwestern part of New York State…but there’s still no break for the Finger Lakes and Rochester. As one meteorologist put it, it seems “Rochester can’t buy a rain shower.” The drought map for New York shows southern Monroe County, Genesee, Livingston, Ontario and […]