CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA ­ The City of Charlottesville announced today that it will offer City residents free water conservation kits from 10am until 1pm at City Hall Plaza each Friday for the rest of the Summer while supplies last This will be on a first-come, first-served basis and in the event of bad weather the program will be moved into the front lobby of City Hall. The kits are part of an ongoing program through the Public Works Water Department and the Finance Department’s Office of Utility Billing where thousands of kits have been offered through the years to households as a contribution to the City’s ongoing commitment to community water conservation. Previous events provided almost a thousand kits to area residents, free of charge. As the dry weather continues across Central Virginia, the City will step up its public education efforts on the benefits of water conservation in cooperation with the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority. Here is what is included in these free kits:

The indoor kit contains:

• A self cleaning, massaging showerhead with soak and soap on/off valve. Showerhead has a flow rate of 2.35 gallons per minute (GPM) or less at 80 pounds per square inch (PSI), and less than 1.9 GPM at 20 PSI in the soak mode, and a flow rate of 1.5 GPM at 80 PSI or less in the soap mode.
• A swivel head variable dual setting kitchen faucet aerator. Aerator has a flow rate of 2.2 GPM at 80 PSI.
• A dual thread bathroom faucet aerator. Aerator has a flow rate of 1.5 GPM at 80 PSI.
• A maintenance free toilet tank displacement bag.
• A package of 2 toilet leak detection dye tablets.
• A roll of extra heavy duty Teflon tape.