Word leaks out about school




Last week’s Acorn article about the water shortage in Oak Park coincided with the arrival in the mail of a notice from the Oak Park Water Service informing Oak Park residents of restrictions being placed on landscape irrigation and a series of fines for violating the restrictions.

It seems like the perfect time for me to point out that Brookside Elementary School irrigates their grassy areas, both outside the fence surrounding the soccer fields and inside the fence, six days a week.

Monday through Saturday those sprinklers run every single day, from approximately 4 to 5:30 a.m., with Sunday the only day that the sprinklers do not run.

It is not posted that the school is using recycled water, and even if they are, there is no need to water that grass six days a week.

Funny how the taxpayer is always required to carry the burden, while government entities, federal, state, county and local, carry on with business as usual.

Hopefully the same restrictions and penalties will apply to all water users, not just the taxpayers.

Matthew Toomey

Oak Park



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