Water restrictions change on Sunday

Twice-a-week watering rules return Sunday
St. Johns River Water Management District rules will change then.

By The Times-Union
on Thursday, Mar. 11, 2010

Twice-a-week watering regulations return Sunday with daylight saving time to the 18 counties within the St. Johns River Water Management District.

Under restrictions adopted a year ago, landscape irrigation is limited to two days a week during daylight saving time, and one day a week during the winter months.

The restrictions were put in place to ensure efficient use of water for lawn and landscape irrigation and to conserve Florida's water. Thirty-six local governments in Northeast and Central Florida also enacted ordinances implementing the district's rule.

Beginning Sunday (with certain exceptions), landscape irrigation restrictions are as follows:

- Wednesday and Saturday for residential landscape irrigation at addresses that end in an odd number or have no address.

- Thursday and Sunday for residential landscape irrigation at addresses that end in an even number.

- Tuesday and Friday for nonresidential landscape irrigation.

- No landscape watering is allowed between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. any day, and no more than one hour is allowed per irrigation zone on each day irrigation occurs.

The restrictions apply to water withdrawn from ground or surface water, private well or pump, or from a public or private water utility.

For more information, visit floridaswater.com/wateringrestrictions.

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