Avon Lake officials are asking 206 thousand water customers to limit their usage. Avon Lake utilities chief Todd Danielson says a shortage was created when ice blocked intake valves pulling water from Lake Erie in below-zero temperatures this week.
Danielson is asking industrial customers to curtail operations that use water, and residential customers to use water only for drinking and cooking. He also wants people to refrain from doing laundry or taking showers and to flush toilets less frequently than usual.