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The restrictions apply to water withdrawn from ground or surface water, private well or pump, or from a public or private water utility.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.
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2010-03-11/story/twice_a_week_watering_rules_return_sunday
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Thursday, March 11, 2010
Tuesday, December 8, 2009
SJRWMD hires group to patrol counties looking for violators of their new water restrictions
http://www.ocala.com/article/20091207/ARTICLES/912071002/1001/NEWS01?Title=Water-district-hires-private-enforcers
Friday, October 23, 2009
With the time change comes new watering restrictions
Most of Central Florida to be under once-a-week watering restrictions starting Nov. 1
By, Kevin Spear
for the Orlando Sentinel
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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The most restrictive limits ever on lawn watering will kick in soon for people who live in the St. Johns River Water Management District, which covers most of Central Florida. On Nov. 1, when daylight saving ends, residents will be allowed to water their grass only once a week until March, when daylight savings resumes and twice-a-week watering is allowed again.
District officials imposed the rule earlier this year as part of efforts to solve a growing water crisis brought on by rapid population growth dipping into a limited amount of underground aquifer water. District officials think lawns don't need as much watering during winter months.
The once-a-week rule, effective in all 18 counties of the district, allows homes with odd addresses to water on Saturday and those with even addresses to use sprinklers on Sunday.
Restrictions are much more complicated for the South Florida Water Management District, which takes in parts of south Orange County and Osceola County. The district now has in effect a drought-response rule that, to avoid confusion, requires its residents to follow the rules of the St. Johns River Water Management District. That means that on Nov. 1, residents of south Orange County and Osceola County will be allowed to water once a week.
But the drought is over and the South Florida Water Management District is about to rescind its drought rule and enact a year-round conservation rule. When that happens, probably later this year, the district residents will be allowed to water twice a week.
By, Kevin Spear
for the Orlando Sentinel
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
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The most restrictive limits ever on lawn watering will kick in soon for people who live in the St. Johns River Water Management District, which covers most of Central Florida. On Nov. 1, when daylight saving ends, residents will be allowed to water their grass only once a week until March, when daylight savings resumes and twice-a-week watering is allowed again.
District officials imposed the rule earlier this year as part of efforts to solve a growing water crisis brought on by rapid population growth dipping into a limited amount of underground aquifer water. District officials think lawns don't need as much watering during winter months.
The once-a-week rule, effective in all 18 counties of the district, allows homes with odd addresses to water on Saturday and those with even addresses to use sprinklers on Sunday.
Restrictions are much more complicated for the South Florida Water Management District, which takes in parts of south Orange County and Osceola County. The district now has in effect a drought-response rule that, to avoid confusion, requires its residents to follow the rules of the St. Johns River Water Management District. That means that on Nov. 1, residents of south Orange County and Osceola County will be allowed to water once a week.
But the drought is over and the South Florida Water Management District is about to rescind its drought rule and enact a year-round conservation rule. When that happens, probably later this year, the district residents will be allowed to water twice a week.
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