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TULAROSA 鈥� Despite recent efforts to curtail excess water usage, Mayor Deborah Cooksey announced Monday that two storage tanks on which 3,000 Tularosans depend for drinking water reached 鈥渃ritically low鈥� levels over the weekend.

The Village Council unanimously declared a state of water emergency with an immediate seven-day ban on outdoor watering, including irrigation and water for food-bearing gardens and other nonessential uses such as landscaping, topping off pools or water features, or washing vehicles.

The resolution also calls on residents to take shorter showers, only run full loads of laundry and dishes and repair any leaks from household plumbing.

Cooksey said the storage tanks were reduced to 6 feet of their capacity, adding that she believed at least 2 feet of sediment was present and that the actual water level was significantly lower.

Alarmed, she said she requested restaurants, convenience stores and other water intensive businesses close early or curtail water use on Sunday, which allowed the village鈥檚 water system to replenish 3 feet overnight.

鈥淚 don't think it's going to be that long,鈥� Cooksey said of the new limits during the council鈥檚 emergency meeting. 鈥淚f we get going pretty good, I'll lift the restrictions where maybe we can just water once a week. 鈥� Here's the thing: Do you want to water your plants or do you want to flush your toilets and take a shower?鈥�

The village depends on water sources downstream of Ruidoso and Lincoln County, where flash flooding from monsoon rains has washed debris, ash and mud into the waterways that deliver water to Tularosa Creek.

In an interview, Cooksey said much of the stormwater can鈥檛 feasibly be treated, and the village鈥檚 filtration system, struggling to clean what water it can, is being outpaced by summer demand.

The village took action in July to restrict nonessential water use but Cooksey said not enough residents complied. In a single night, she said storage levels dropped from 16 feet to six.

鈥淵ou know how many people water at nighttime,鈥� she said. 鈥淭hey leave the water on all night. They don鈥檛 care. It doesn鈥檛 matter to them that we鈥檙e telling them it鈥檚 critical.鈥�

Now, residents can be fined: The emergency resolution authorizes local police and code enforcement officers to issue immediate citations for violating the emergency rules.

The emergency declaration also seeks to unlock state funds to pump supplies of potable water into the water system and, Cooksey hoped, also replenish the holding pond with non-potable water.

Area farmers have offered water from their own wells, but Cooksey said at the meeting that state regulations overrule that as an immediate solution.

Longer term, Cooksey said an additional water source is in the works.

鈥淭he creek feeds us all, but as an alternative source, we have a well and we鈥檙e just working on getting the money to pipe it up,鈥� she told the Journal. 鈥淚t鈥檚 a long way from our water tank, but we鈥檙e working on it.鈥�

The Otero County Commission is scheduled to meet Tuesday afternoon to act on a drinking water emergency declaration for Tularosa. Commissioner Amy Barela attended the village鈥檚 session on Monday.

Algernon 顿鈥橝尘尘补蝉蝉补 is the Journal鈥檚 southern New Mexico correspondent. He can be reached at adammassa@abqjournal.com.