Mandatory Water Restrictions Effective October 2013

STAGE 1 – MANDATORY WATER RESTRICTIONS

  • 2-Times per Week Landscape Irrigation

The Fern Bluff Municipal Utility has enacted Stage 1- Mandatory Water Restrictions effective October 14, 2013.  The district, as a wholesale customer of the City of Round Rock, has adopted and follows the city’s conservation/drought plan.

The Brazos River Authority (BRA) issued a Stage 2 Drought Warning Declaration for Lake Georgetown on October 4, 2013.  The BRA has notified each of its Lake Georgetown customers that its Stage 2 declaration is required, despite recent rains and cooling temperatures, in order to make the water supply from the reservoir last longer in the continuing drought conditions.

TWICE A WEEK MANDATORY RESTRICTIONS SCHEDULE:

  1. Single-family residences with odd-numbered ending addresses may irrigate on Wednesdays and/or Saturdays.
  2. Single-family residences with even-numbered ending addresses may irrigate on Thursdays and/or Sundays.
  3. Commercial/Multi-family Residential addresses may irrigate on Tuesdays and/or Fridays.

Watering is allowed ONLY between midnight to 10 am and/or 7 pm to midnight on scheduled day.

The following activities are allowed on the correct schedule days as listed above:

  • Outdoor irrigation
  • Foundation watering
  • Vehicle washing
  • Filling of swimming of pools
  • Golf course irrigation
  • Ornamental recirculating fountains

NOT allowed:

  • Street or Sidewalk washing
  • Ornamental Fountains that do not recirculate.

EXCLUSIONS:

  • Commercial Car Washes
  • Commercial Plant Nurseries
  • Commercial Power Washing Companies
  • Athletic Fields where field is in use (organized youth, amateur, etc. sports)
  • Necessary use to protect public health (IE: washing garbage trucks, food transport vehicles, etc.)
  • Irrigation using other sources of water such as groundwater, rainwater or the City’s reuse water