The aquifer water levels in the wells have not been heavily stressed for many years due to relatively mild summers with plenty of rain. During the summer and fall of 2020 we experienced a mild drought for several months resulting in the drop in the water table at the end of 2020, most pronounced at Springhouse. We did not have any issues in 2021. We did monthly drawdowns at each well and noticed no significant changes.
Table 3 on the next page shows a comparison of total well production in gallons per well per month for 2020 and 2021.
IV. TOTAL PUMPAGE TO SYSTEM REPORT AND CHARTS
The City was able to produce water to meet 99.75% of the total demand of 439,658,000 gallons (1,205,000 avg/day). The maximum day system usage was on August 28th at 2,350,000 gallons and the minimum day system usage was on November 26th at 837,000 gallons. No fire events (i.e., extra demand) occurred in 2021 that required city of Dayton or Montgomery County water. During the month of September, we did purchase 1,119,000 gallons due to a power failure at Well #6 and a pump issue at Well #7.