The Gazette
In a letter to The Gazette that appears in today’s paper, Mayor Frank Johnson wrote that water usage Sunday reached its highest point for the month, though overall use has gone down. Councilman John Woodhull said residents used 866,000 gallons of water on Sunday, but the average for the week ending Sunday was 783,000 gallons per day, down from the more than 830,000 gallons per day averaged the week before. ‘‘Over the last two weeks, the community has, by and large, responded,” Johnson wrote. He went on to write that if town water use follows Sunday’s increase rather than the week’s overall decrease, ‘‘we’d have little choice but to impose significant restrictions on water use.” Johnson’s letter praised residents’ response to earlier requests from the town to limit water use, and he wrote he is ‘‘hopeful” that mandatory water restrictions can be avoided. ‘‘We’ve already shown that we can restrict ourselves voluntarily.” Woodhull, liaison to the Water and Sewer Commission, agreed. ‘‘If w...