St. Helena City Council declares Phase I water emergency
The St. Helena City Council declared a Phase I water emergency on Tuesday after a critically dry rainfall season. Phase I prohibits customers from adding landscaping and appliances that will increase water use, limits the watering of ornamental landscapes or turf to two days a week, prohibits the use of potable water to irrigate landscaping between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and imposes other conservation measures.