Big Creek Utility District manager Allen Joslyn said Friday that recent rains have filled the utility’s reservoir in Altamont, Tenn., enough that customers can go back to using water as usual.
“All the water restrictions are lifted,” Joslyn said on Friday. “We’re not completely full yet but we are on the rise.”
Big Creek customers were issued a conservation notice in September as the lingering drought burned away water supplies in Grundy County and elsewhere around the region.
Mandatory restrictions went into place on Nov. 1.
Joslyn said this year’s restrictions were in place at least as long as they were during the drought of 2007.