PHASE 2: SEVERE SHORTAGE: MANDATORY DESIGNATED DAY
Signal: 1,500-200 cfs river flow; greater than 65 MGD usage
Possible Action: Mandatory three (3) designated days
Outdoor water use (see subcategories below)
Definitions: Use of water obtained from hoses or sprinkler systems when applied to lawns, landscape, gardens
Restrictions: Mandatory designated 3 days as provided below
Exemptions/Allowed Use:
- Outdoor watering using attended handheld hoses is permitted for occasional watering of landscape
- All watering of personal, community, and commercial gardens for produce for human consumption
- Bird baths
- Water from rain barrels or cisterns
- Hand-held containers from inside/outside house for minimal watering
Outdoor water use at residential properties with odd addresses
Definitions: Single or two family dwellings (duplexes) with street address ending in odd number (1,3,5,7,9)
Restrictions: Tuesday, Thursday, Saturday
Exemptions/Allowed Use: See above
Outdoor water use at residential properties with even addresses
Definitions: Single or two family dwellings (duplexes) with street address ending in even number (0,2,4,6,8)
Restrictions: Sunday, Wednesday, Friday
Exemptions/Allowed Use: See above
Outdoor water use at multiple family dwelling, commercial, industrial, governmental, institutional, common irrigation
Definitions: Multiple dwellings with accommodations for more than two families, apartment complexes, offices, commercial, industrial, governmental, institutional, residential developments with common irrigation systems, other property types without unique street addresses such as medians and outlots
Restrictions: Sunday, Tuesday, Friday
Exemptions/Allowed Use: See above
Washing vehicles
Definitions: Motor vehicles, trucks, trailers, boats, other types of mobile equipment or implements
Restrictions: Mandatory designated days based on address/ property type
Exemptions/Allowed Use: Health and safety purposes (i.e., garbage trucks, vehicles carrying food perishables, sludge trucks, emergency vehicles) and commercial car washing facilities (automatic or manual)
Washing sidewalks, driveways, paved areas
Definitions: Cleaning paved or surfaced areas used for travel
Restrictions: PROHIBITED
Exemptions/Allowed Use: Health and safety purposes to avoid hazardous, obnoxious, unsafe, unhealthy, unsanitary condition or threat to the health, safety, and welfare of persons living or passing in the vicinity thereof
Power washer businesses
Definitions: Businesses using portable, high pressure mechanical sprayer to clean surfaces
Restrictions: Mandatory designated days based on address/ property type
Exemptions/Allowed Use: All use permitted
Commercial plant nurseries
Definitions: For-profit nurseries, includes retail site, stock site, and off-site installations
Restrictions: None, nurseries asked to restrict non-essential uses
Exemptions/Allowed Use: All use permitted
Sod
Definitions: Completely sodded or newly seeded lawns (both cool and warm season grasses, at least 1,000 square feet)
Restrictions: None, if permit obtained from Building & Safety Dept.
Exemptions/Allowed Use: Outdoor water use permitted for 30 days according to permit, otherwise by mandatory designated days, signs must be posted on permitted property
Irrigation system
Definitions: Install of sprinkler system
Restrictions: None, if permit obtained from Building & Safety Dept.
Exemptions/Allowed Use: Outdoor water use permitted for 10 days according to permit, otherwise by mandatory designated days, signs must be posted on permitted property
Swimming pools
Definitions: Swimming pools used or intended to be used by owner, operator, or public, having a depth of 18 inches or more, see LMC 8.36, 8.38
Restrictions: Mandatory designated day refilling, drain at end of season or for emergency repairs
Exemptions/Allowed Use: Health and safety purposes to avoid hazardous, unsafe, unhealthy, unsanitary condition or threat to the health, safety, and welfare of persons
Fountains, ponds
Definitions: Only those over 20,000 gallons
Restrictions: Filling or replenishment PROHIBITED
Exemptions/Allowed Use: No prohibition for filling or replenishment of fountains or pond under 20,000 gallons
Water-cooled A/C
Definitions: Air conditioner using water to cool interior of dwelling
Restrictions: NONE
Exemptions/Allowed Use: Signs must be posted on each property utilizing water-cooled A/C
Golf courses
Definitions: Area of land landscaped for playing golf
Restrictions:
- Greens permitted daily
- Fairways permitted Monday-Friday with dormancy hydration
- Tees on designated days using clubhouse address
Exemptions/Allowed Use: NONE
Ball fields
Definitions: USGA-styled sand-based athletic fields, infields, ballfields with agrilime
Restrictions: NONE
Exemptions/Allowed Use: All use permitted every day
Private wells
Definitions: Property owners with private wells not using LWS water
Restrictions: NONE
Exemptions/Allowed Use: Signs must be posted on each property utilizing well water