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Mandatory Restrictions:

What's Allowed

* Outdoor water uses (including lawn watering by hand or sprinkler, washing cars, filling pools or fountains, etc.), are permitted two days per week for customers.

   > Customers with odd-numbered addresses may use water outdoors on Tuesdays & Saturdays.  Example: 123 Main Street.

   > Customers with even-numbered addresses may use water outdoors on Thursdays & Sundays.  Example: 124 Main Street.

REMEMBER: Your watering day ends at midnight.  Lawns only need one inch of water per week (rain included).

*   Hand-held use of a watering container or hose (with spray nozzle attached) to water trees, shrubs or plant beds is allowed on any day in all parts of our service area. 

*   Use of drip irrigation or soaker hoses to water trees, shrubs or plant beds is permitted on any day in any part of our service system.

*   Pressure washing a deck or outside of a house is allowed on any day across the service area.

*   Commercial uses of water, except those restricted above, are still allowed. That would include commercial pressure washers, watering nurseries, commercial car washes, street washers, water use for a construction site, etc.

 

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