Water Report for the Village

On Monday the board heard a presentation on the Village's water usage for 2004 and 2005. It was quite interesting. I don't think this graph reproduces very well, but you can see the dots are the individual days water usage from JAWA, the red line shows the usage as a 5 day moving average. NOTE: the y-axis which is not shown goes from zero to 3.5 million gallons a day of water usage, and the y-axis is sorted by all the dates in 2004 and 2005.

• Our average water usage per day in 2005 was 1.312 million gallons a day.
• The average water usage in 2004 was 988,000 gallons a day.
  
• A couple of times late last summer we used over 3 million gallons in one day!
• We learned that in the next few years we will need more storage in the south part of Round Lake.
• We also need to consider a new receiving station for the JAWA water supply, giving us two stations instead of the one we already have.
  

Bonus points for guessing which periods on the graph represent summer months or which days my daughter takes extra long showers? If anyone wants the actual slide show we saw I would be happy to email it to them.