Whenever the governing body of the city receives notice from our water supplier that an emergency exists by reason of a shortage of water and that in order to properly protect and fully utilize the supply of water for essential uses such as household consumption, maintenance of health and sanitation facilities and the operation of essential businesses, the governing body shall have power to declare an emergency to exist and to prohibit during the period of the emergency, the use of water for nonessential uses and to promulgate and enforce conservation measures limiting the permissible use of water from the city water supply for essential cases only. Such emergency shall be deemed to continue until it is declared by the governing body to be ended.

(Ord. 494, Sec. 1; Code 2004)

That certain documents, three copies of which are on file in the office of the city clerk, being marked and designated as the “Municipal Water Conservation Plan for the City of Towanda”, September 2025, be and the same is hereby adopted as the Plan of the City of Towanda for determining long term water use efficiency, drought/emergency contingency and plan revision, monitoring and evaluation, including stage 1-water watch, stage 2-water warning and stage 3-water emergency, which is on file in the office of the city clerk, Towanda, Kansas, and is hereby referred to, adopted and a part hereof as if fully set out in this code.

(Ord. 494, Sec. 2; Code 2004; Ord. 729)