Editor:
Since June 1 we have been on water restrictions, then we received a card in the mail about Stage 3 Water Restrictions from July 1 to Sept. 30.
I read it, but I have a problem with the theory of why the sports fields need to be watered. They say because it is constructed with a sand base for year round use and so on and so on, but I have a sand based lawn at my house and the grass doesn't die, it goes dormant and then when we start getting all our rain my grass comes back. So they should come up with a better excuse of why it needs to be done.
Secondly, watering is supposed to be done from 4 a.m.-9 a.m. on your given days, plus they say not to water at night because of the dew (makes sense). So my question is: Why do they turn the sprinklers on at (usually) 1:30 a.m. and leave them on for a couple of hours. On Aug. 3 the sprinklers were turned on at 1:15 a.m. and they went till 3:07 a.m., just shy of two hours, and you could hear the water running down the walkways and the field that the fair was held at.
They used to water at normal times awhile back until people called them out on watering and now they started watering at this time of the morning. I'm tired of a double standard and something needed to be said.
Jaunita Slack, Aldergrove