Water Restrictions Reminder (8PM – 8AM)

With the arrival of hot weather, the need for watering gardens, trees and lawns has increased, but please be aware of the times when irrigation systems (including lawn sprinklers) for residential properties can be used – which is between 8PM and 8AM (i.e., overnight) for the period from June 1 to September 14. Please limit your watering to this period, which will avoid the water simply evaporating, and will reduce peak throughput, and hence wear and tear, on our pumps and other components of our water system (which increases both the risk of breakdowns/outages and the cost, which all of us share).

(These time-of-day restrictions do not apply to orchards, vineyards, and pasture, as the OID cannot supply enough water for all areas of all those properties in any limited period).

Note that these time-of-use restrictions do not apply to hand-held hoses, which can be used at any time.