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CALIFORNIA / MENDOCINO COUNTY

Fort Bragg

RestrictedRestored October 2021
Fort Bragg, California
Robert Campbell, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Population (2020)
6,983
Water cut
September 13, 2021
Supply cut
30%
Cause
surface water
Where
39.45°N, 123.80°W
Official site
City of Fort Bragg

What happened, and when

Every dated water event the register holds for Fort Bragg, newest first, each with the sources that document it.

  1. Restored

    Restored

    The council downgraded to Stage 2 on October 12, 2021 and then rescinded all mandatory restrictions, citing rainfall and the new desalination unit.

  2. Restrictedon the card

    Restricted: what happened

    On September 13, 2021 the Fort Bragg City Council raised its water emergency to a Stage 4 water crisis after the Noyo River, the city's main late-summer source, fell below the 1977 drought record. Stage 4 under the municipal code targets a mandatory 30 to 40 percent cut in seasonal demand, banned all lawn watering and car washing outside commercial facilities, and added 10 percent to the Stage 3 cuts. It followed a mandatory Stage 2 warning on July 12, 2021, a halt of sales to outside water haulers that July, and a Stage 3 emergency on August 9; the city had declared mandatory emergencies in 2020 and in October 2015, when salt water reached the Noyo intake.

  3. Restricted

    Stage 3 water emergency

    On August 9, 2021 the city raised its water emergency to Stage 3 as the Noyo River kept falling.

    • The Mendocino Voice: Fort Bragg upgrades its water emergency to Stage 4 as Noyo River at virtual standstill (September 15, 2021)
  4. Restricted

    Mandatory Stage 2 warning; sales to outside haulers halted

    On July 12, 2021 the council adopted a mandatory Stage 2 water warning under its amended conservation ordinance, and that July the city halted sales to outside water haulers.

    • City of Fort Bragg: Ordinance No. 969-2021 amending Chapter 14.06 (water conservation) of the municipal code (July 12, 2021)
  5. Restricted

    Mandatory emergency as salt water reaches the Noyo intake

    In October 2015 the city declared a mandatory water emergency when salt water reached the Noyo River intake; restaurants were ordered onto paper plates and cups.