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Mandatory Restrictions:

What's Allowed

* Outdoor water uses (including lawn watering by hand or sprinkler, filling pools, etc.), are permitted one day per week.

   > Customers with odd-numbered addresses may use water outdoors on Saturdays.

   > Customers with even-numbered addresses may use water outdoors on Sundays.

   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.  Watering lawns by hand is not allowed except on your above day.

*   Use of drip irrigation or soaker hoses to water trees, shrubs or plant beds.

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

*   Other outdoor water uses are discouraged but not restricted to weekends. (Examples: pressure washing deck or outside of house)

 

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