Washington County Water Conservancy District officials are asking property owners in southwest Utah to suspend all landscape irrigation for at least 48 hours to conserve water after the region was pummeled with more storms Thursday morning.
“If all systems were suspended for a single day, the water savings would be in the tens of millions of gallons,” Doug Bennett, the district’s conservation manager, said in a statement, adding that the pause could go on, depending on how much rain the region gets the next few days.
Another round of deep monsoon moisture entered Utah on Thursday, generating some morning storms that dumped heavy rainfall throughout southwest Utah. KSL meteorologist Matt Johnson said Snow Canyon State Park, Black Desert Resort and Red Cliffs Recreation Area were among the areas that received over 1.5 inches of rain within just four hours, while the Ledges golf course ended up with over 2 inches of rain.
The fast-falling rain led to some flash flooding in the region. A flash-flood warning for parts of Washington and Kane counties expired Thursday afternoon, but the National Weather Service also issued a flood watch for most of southern Utah that remains in place the rest of the day.
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Written by CARTER WILLIAMS, KSL.com.