Starting today, watering in the city is allowed once every seven days,
up to 1 inch per week. Watering is prohibited between the hours of noon
to 6 p.m. Hand watering of lawns, gardens, landscape areas, trees, shrubs,
or other plants or foundations may be done on any day except during the
prohibited watering hours provided the allowable application rate of
1 inch per week is not exceeded. Landscape or foundation watering with a drip
irrigation system such as a soaker hose, deep root system, drip pipe, tape
or bubbler shall be permitted on any day and at any time, provided the
amount of water applied will not exceed 1 inch per week. Golf course greens may
be watered daily except during the prohibited watering hours. Runoff of more than
150 feet down any street, gutter, alley, or ditch is prohibited, as is the failure to
repair a controllable leak.
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