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Conserve or pay: The Sacramento City Council promises to get tough on water-ordinance enforcement

Posted by: Maven on June 18, 2009 at 7:16 am

From the Sacramento News & Review:

The city of Sacramento wants you to conserve water. And they really mean it this time. A suite of new outdoor-watering rules kicked in on Friday, June 12. The new water ordinance is a lot like the old water ordinance, but city officials say that now they are going to be enforced.

The new rules include:

• Odd/even watering days. If your address ends in an odd number, you can water on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. If your address ends in an even number, watering is allowed Wednesday, Friday and Sunday. Nobody gets to water on Monday. This rule has actually been on the books for 10 years, but wasn’t enforced before.

• No watering at all between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. during your watering day. The old rule was noon to 6 p.m.

• No washing your car without a shut-off nozzle on your hose.

• Winter watering will be sharply curtailed. Between November and March, you may only water one day a week. Odd addresses get Saturdays, even addresses get Sundays.

The rules say nothing about Slip ’n Slides, kiddie pools and filling up water balloons with the garden hose. “We don’t have specific measures to address those activities,” said Mike Malone, field supervisor with the Sacramento Utilities Department. “We’d probably discourage them.”

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June 18, 2009 · Filed Under Sacramento

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