After days of record high temperatures and very little rain the City of Fairhope’s water system was feeling the strain.

Monday the city council authorized the mayor to implement any and all phases of the city’s emergency ordinance.

“Our highest levels we saw were 9 million gallons, that was last Monday,” said Sherry Sullivan, Mayor of Fairhope.

After reaching capacity last week the city of Fairhope entered Phase 1 of their ‘Water Emergency’.

"We were kind of a situation we’re we had not had rain in a couple weeks, seeing hundred-degree temperatures that we haven’t seen in a long time and people were just pulling down on the water really hard,” said Sullivan

All that demand causing plenty of problems.

“For us it creates brown water, it creates low water pressure,” said Mayor Sullivan.

Monday the Mayor says the emergency is over, after water customers banded together to preserve the pipes. She says that customers still need to be careful as the issue could return.

“We continue to ask people to conserve, to look at their water practicesif we conserve a little, 500,000 gallons it makes a huge difference for our system,” said Sullivan.

The mayor says it was incredible to see the community come together and city leaders are working on more ways to lighten the water system’s load.

“We are going to limit the hours of the splash pad because that water is not reclaimed. We’ve also looked at other practices. Like I said it gave us the chance to kind of evaluate our selves and see things that we can do better,” said Sullivan.

The mayor says they are building two wells, and plan to put a new waterline in to help bring the water back into town.