Say what you want about conservation but look at the output level they are releasing at the dam. It is waaaaay up. The lake was over the limit and they dumped it to bring it to a safe level. There was a time a week ago when we had too much water!

The city is currently building a new water plant to pull water from lake wheeler and lake benson. the plant is next to lake benson. Falls Lake when full holds plenly of water and can supply 100 mgd unless you are in a severe drought. Raleigh conserving now or then has no effect on downstream since the acoe releases water from the water quality pool to maintain the neuse river and would have continued to. When the river is low ACOE releases more water! Water demand is still low 38-42 mgd now so where did the growth go? No one left but last summer Raleigh customers used 77 million gallons a day! It was watering yards to show off green grass. pepsi didn't move its plant. Raleigh will not use water from lake jordan since that is interbasin transfer which cary is currently allowed to do. yes, restrictions should be eased since lake is in flood storage.

Mr X and NC Mike are onto something. We who know that Raleigh has a water storage problem not a water supply problem unfortunately are a minority. Keep up the good work guys. I only wish someone were listening.

Informed landscape contractor.

stick with some form of conservation, be it a 1x, 2x, 3x watering times per week to establish the "habit".....when the tough times come, it will be 2nd nature to conserve rather than the emotional issues Raleigh faced last year

The Neuse River flows into the Palmico Sound and not the Cape Fear.

What do worldwide water supplies have to do with us? Water falls out of the sky here, if we don't use it then it flows down the river to the Atlantic (yes some is used by downstream tows but at the current high flow rate, they can't use it fast enough)

Stage 1 water restrictions make no sense. We should go back to the normal year round restrictions put in place last year.

The drought was worsened when the city dithered about restrictions when we needed them and the CoE kept sending more water down the river than was needed.