Look up a customer's assigned watering day and applicable irrigation-type restrictions under a municipal drought conservation stage before scheduling automated irrigation runs.
domain: Municipal water utility (e.g., Austin Water, austintexas.gov) · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Identify the current drought/conservation stage the municipality has declared, since watering rules change by stage (e.g., Austin's baseline Conservation Stage vs. more restrictive stages).
Use the utility's address-based watering-day lookup tool (e.g., Austin Water's 'Find Your Watering Day' page) to get the customer's specific assigned day(s) rather than assuming a citywide default.
Confirm the irrigation-method-specific rules under the current stage, since automatic in-ground irrigation, hose-end sprinklers/drip, and hand watering commonly have different day/time allowances under the same stage.
Note the permitted watering time windows (e.g., before a set morning time and after a set evening time) to program the smart controller's schedule accordingly.
Re-check the lookup periodically, since municipalities revise conservation stages and watering-day assignments as drought conditions change.
Known gotchas
Watering-day assignments are address-specific, not citywide-uniform — always use the utility's per-address lookup tool rather than a general 'city rule.'
Different irrigation methods on the same property can have different allowed frequencies under one conservation stage (e.g., automatic systems limited to one day/week while hose-end/drip gets two) — a single controller schedule may not be compliant for all zones if methods are mixed.
Conservation stages are not static — a schedule programmed under one stage can go out of compliance without notice when the utility escalates or relaxes restrictions; violations can carry per-incident penalties.
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