STEAMBOAT SPRINGS — — As Steamboat Springs nears the one-week mark since mandatory water restrictions were put in place, officials say it’s still too soon to determine what impact they’re having. But expect the restrictions to remain in place for the foreseeable future.
Jay Gallagher, general manager of the Mount Werner Water and Sanitation District that serves residential and commercial customers on the eastern half of Steamboat, including the ski resort base, said it likely will take a couple of weeks before he and other water district managers can tell how well the restrictions are, or aren’t, working.
“It’s really hard to tell in these early days because we’re really in the implementation phase,” Gallagher said Tuesday. “We’re still doing the messaging. It takes time.”
The Mount Werner Water and Sanitation District, the city of Steamboat Springs Water District, the Steamboat II Metro District and the Tree Haus Metro District jointly enacted the water restrictions Friday. Gallagher said the restrictions began one day after Fish Creek Reservoir, the primary source of municipal water for the four districts that serve Steamboat and its immediate surrounding neighborhoods, stopped spilling over its dam.
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