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SEPTEMBER
WODAYWATERINGZONES
EVENTS & ACTIVITIES
Colleyville Center
5301 Riverwalk Drive
817.503.1330
Colleyville PARD
L.D. Lockett House
315 L.D. Lockett Road
Rock House
240 W. McDonwell School Road
817.503.1180
Colleyville Public Library
110 Main Street
817.503.1150
Colleyville Senior Center
2512 Glade Road
817.283.7648
Junior Beginner Tennis
City Park Tennis Court
Mon. and/or Wed.,
Aug. 29-Sept. 26, 4:15 p.m.
For details, call 817.503.1180
TRWDPREDICTINGMOREWATERRESTRICTIONS
Digital Storybook
Colleyville Senior Center
With continued dry conditions Restricting draining and re-
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Wed., Sept. 7-28, 10:00 am.
and extreme temperatures,filling swimming pools
officials at the Tarrant Regional Limiting private vehicle
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Story Time Registration Opens
Water District (TRWD) havewashing to the use of a bucket
Colleyville Public Library
notified member cities that moreor a hose with a turnoff valve
Mon., Sept. 12, 10:00 a.m.
stringent water restrictionsIn Colleyville, twice-a-week
Regal Opera Performance
across the region are likely to bewatering would be accomplished
Colleyville Center
enacted by early September.in zones depicted in the map
Friday, Sept. 16, 7:00 p.m.
Under TRWD’s drought plan, ifabove. ...continued on back page
Sunday, Sept. 18, 2:00 p.m.
the district’s lakes and reservoirs
For tickets, call 817.685.6143
drop to 75% of capacity, TRWD
OUTDOORMOVIECANCELLED
will require cities to enforce
For a complete listing of
Due to concerns for the public’s
mandatory restrictions.
activities and events in August,
safety, the outdoor movie, “How
Those restrictions include:
visit Colleyville.com
to Train Your Dragon,” sched-
uled Friday, Sept. 2, has been
Limiting outdoor watering with
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cancelled. Continued high
sprinklers or irrigation systems
temperatures and dry conditions
to twice per week
may present health concerns for
Prohibiting hosing off paved
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some residents. The event will
areas like driveways and side-
not be rescheduled.
walks, or buildings and windows
FALLCLEANSWEEP
PARDONLINEBROCHURES
WATERRESTRICTIONS
Saturday, Oct. 1, 8:45 a.m.
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(McPherson Park, 240 West
The respective zones and allowed
McDonwell School Rd.)
watering days are as follows:
Presented by Keep Colleyville
Beautiful (KCB), in association
Zone A - north of Colleyville
with the city of Colleyville, Clean
Boulevard and west of Pleasant
Sweep brings the Colleyville
Run Road
community together to pick up
Tuesday and Friday
city streets and open spaces.
KCB currently is accepting
Zone B - north of Glade Road
individual, group, or family
and east of Pleasant Run Road
volunteers for the event, which
Wednesday and Saturday
qualifies for community service
hours. Please call 817.503.1180
Zone C -south of Glade Road
Colleyville Parks and Recreation
for volunteer information. For
and east of Colleyville Boulevard
continues the city’s efforts to
general event information, visit
Thursday and Sunday
keep Colleyville green. Beginning
Colleyville.com.
this fall, class and activity
Outdoor watering with
brochures will no longer be
VIALOFLIFEPROGRAM
sprinklers or irrigation
mailed to individual households,
For emergency personnel, knowl-
systems would be prohibited
but will be available through a
edge of a patient’s medication(s)
on Mondays to comply with city
fully digital, interactive online
can be critical. The Vial of Life
and TRWD drought plans. The
“book” at ColleyvillePARD.com.
program provides that access
restriction on outdoor watering
Brochures will be available for
through a free medical informa-
from 10:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.
three seasons—fall, winter/spring
tion kit. Participants complete the
would remain in effect, even on
and summer.
form included with the kit and
allowed watering days.
The online brochures will also
place it, along with a photograph,
Foundations and new plantings
have a green effect on the city
in a clear plastic bag. The bag,
(first year) of grass, trees, and
budget. Savings in printing and
labeled with a special decal, is
shrubs could be watered with a
mailing costs will save the city
placed on the refrigerator. A
handheld sprayer or soaker hose
approximately $12,000 annually.
second decal is placed on the
on any day. Nurseries would be
For details on recreational
front door to alert first responders
allowed to water plant stock only.
programs offered in Colleyville,
to the medical information.
The city of Colleyville’s water
contact the Parks and Recreation
The Citizen’s Fire Academy
conservation and drought
Department at 817.503.1180.
Alumni Association is sponsoring
contingency plan provides
the program and purchasing the
penalties for violations of these
NATIONALNIGHTOUT
first 300 kits, which will be avail-
restrictions. A first violation
Tuesday, Oct. 4, 6:00 p.m.
able at the Colleyville Senior
would result in a written warn-
(Citywide)
Center. For more information,
ing; subsequent violations could
contact the Colleyville Fire
result in a citation with a fine notThe Colleyville Police Department
Department at 817.581.4591.
to exceed $2,000 per incident.encourages everyone to get
TRWD supplies water to mostinvolved in Colleyville’s National
cities in Tarrant County. InNight Out event, scheduled-
NONEMERGENCYNUMBER
addition to Colleyville, the districtTuesday, Oct. 4, from 6:00-8:00
Effective Oct. 1, the former
supplies water to Fort Worth,p.m. The program promotes
non-emergency numbers for
Arlington, North Richland Hills,neighborhood interaction, police-
Colleyville—817.281.2132 and
Southlake, Keller, and Mansfield.community partnerships, and
817.281.3134—will no longer
Information on waterheightens awareness of crime
be operational. The new
conservation, as well as links toand drug prevention activities.
non-emergency number—
TRWD and the Trinity RiverSuggestions for neighborhood
817.743.4522—that went into
Authority (TRA), is available atactivities include: block parties,
effect last year when the city
Colleyville.com. Updates oncookouts, organized walks, and
joined the regional jail and
current and anticipated watercontests for the kids. For more
communications center will
restrictions are available throughinformation, or to arrange for a
remain active. In the event of
the City E-News service. Regis-police or fire department visit,
an emergency, residents should
tration is free and available atcontact Officer Raymon Cannon
always call 9-1-1.
Colleyville.com.at 817.503.1230.
2875-19081