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SANTA FE -- The Canada de los Alamos Mutual Domestic Water Association in Santa Fe County has instituted a 50-gallon-per-day limit on household water use to keep the community well from running dry.
People typically use about 65 gallons a day, said Paige Grant, a water association member and executive director of the Santa Fe Watershed Association.
The association's well can pump for only 15 minutes before going dry, Grant said. Community members dug the 20-foot-deep well with a backhoe 40 years ago.
The association notified its 22 members about the limits, warning them that they'd receive verbal warnings for the first two infractions, a $50 fine for the third and a loss of water service for the fourth, Grant said.
Members of the association have water meters, so board members will know whether they've exceeded the limit, Grant said.
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