You can start efficient water use in your  home today. Here are some tips to save water:

• Do not let the water run needlessly when washing dishes, shaving or brushing your teeth.
• Take shorter showers...keeping showers to less than 5 minutes can save up to 1,000 gallons per month.
• Plug the bathtub before turning the water on and then adjust the temperature as the tub fills up.
• Fix leaky faucets: just one drip a second can waste 2,000 gallons of water per year.
• If practical, try to run the dishwasher or washing machine only when completely full.
• Water your lawn only when necessary and consider landscaping with native plants adaptable to your climate's conditions.

        Click here for some recommendations from the California Landscape

        Contractors Association to help you make smart choices and protect the

        environment.

Click here to see the drought status of Sacramento Water Purveyors (February 2009).

Click here to report a water leak or water waste.

If you have a water leak in your water system that requires your water to be shut off, click here for information on how to shut off your water.

Rancho Murieta Community Services District has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System – a high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas of Rancho Murieta Community Services District in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil water notice, law enforcement emergency or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 50,000 phone numbers per hour.  It then delivers our recorded message to a live person or an answering machine, making three attempts to connect to any number.

Click here to update your contact information.

THIS SYSTEM WILL ONLY BE USED FOR EMERGENCY PURPOSES.
Examples of times when the CodeRED system could be utilized: drinking water contamination, evacuation notice and route, missing children, fires or floods, law enforcement emergency, chemical spill or gas leak and other emergency incidents where rapid and accurate notification is essential for life safety.

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Click Here for information from Sacramento-Yolo Mosquito & Vector Control District on protecting yourself from mosquitoes and the West Nile virus.

Visit Cal-Waste.com for garbage information or the route map to see your collection day. For more information, please see our Solid Waste page.

Click here for the 2009 Collection Calendar.