Port Jervis Asks for Voluntary Water Conservation During Dry Season

Port Jervis Asks for Voluntary Water Conservation During Dry Season
The Delaware Bridge between Port Jervis, N.Y. and Matamoras, Pa. on July 27, 2016. Yvonne Marcotte/Epoch Times
Cara Ding
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The city of Port Jervis is asking residents to use water more efficiently as reservoir levels remain below 50 percent.

“It’s a bad dry season; we just had intermittent rains,“ the city’s Chief Water Plant Operator Scott Decker told The Epoch Times. ”What really worries me is the forecast for rain, because if we don’t start watching it now and don’t get more rain to catch up later, then we will be really depleted before it’s too late,” he added.