Each year by law, we are required to report our water use to the State of NC. While they don’t use this information for water restrictions, their interest is how much impact could water use have on downstream sites if everyone who had a pump station ran it at maximum capacity. At Highlands CC, we don’t have the need for more than approximately 350,000 gallons of water per day (this is during a dry period). Our pump station however, has the capacity and ability to pump about 2.4 million gallons per day!