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City irrigation ordinance <br /> <br />https://lakeelmo.municipalcodeonline.com/book?type=ordinances#name=5.04.180_Water_Use_Restric <br />tions <br />5.04.180 Water Use Restrictions <br />1. Emergency authority. To protect the health and safety of the consumers, as well as the general <br />welfare, the mayor or city council may impose emergency regulations pertaining to city water use. <br />Whenever the city shall determine that a critical water deficiency prevails, it may limit the times <br />and hours during which water may be used from the city water system for lawn and garden <br />sprinkling, irrigation, car washing, air conditioning, and other nonessential uses. It is unlawful for <br />any water consumer to cause or permit water to be used in violation of such determination after <br />public announcement thereof has been made through publication or by posting in the city hall and <br />city website specifically indicating the restrictions thereof. <br />1. The mayor or city council may declare a critical water deficiency to prevail within the city <br />whenever it finds and determines that the ordinary demands and requirements of water <br />consumers cannot be satisfied without depleting the water supply of the city to the extent <br />that there would be insufficient water for human consumption, sanitation, and fire <br />protection. <br />2. The mayor or city council shall thereupon enact such regulations and restrictions on the <br />delivery of water and the consumption within the city to conserve the water supply for the <br />greatest public benefit with particular regard to domestic use, sanitation, and fire <br />protection. <br />3. When the governor declares a critical water deficiency, the mayor or city council will enact <br />and enforce water conservation restrictions in accordance with M.S.A. § 103G.291. <br />4. Water use regulations and restrictions may include the right to deny applications for new <br />or additional service connections, and provisions for their enforcement by discontinuing <br />service to customers willfully violating the regulations and restrictions. <br />2. Permanent water use restrictions. To ensure the availability of essential water and fire protection, <br />encourage water conservation and allow flexibility in the city's water system in meeting peak <br />demands, and to reduce the required water supply and storage capacity requirements allowing for <br />a lower cost water system, certain limitations must be placed on the city's water supply. <br />1. Water Irrigation Zones. Property owners in Zone A may water, sprinkle, or irrigate on <br />Mondays and Fridays. Property owners in Zone B may water, sprinkle, or irrigate on <br />Tuesdays and Fridays. Property owners in Zone C may water, sprinkle, or irrigate on <br />Wednesdays and Saturdays. Property owners in Zone D may water, sprinkle, or irrigate on <br />Thursdays and Sundays. A map depicting the zones will be maintained by the Public Works <br />Department and appear on the City's website. <br />2. Time of day sprinkling ban. All property owners are prohibited from watering, sprinkling, <br />or irrigating their lawns between the hours of 5:00 a.m. and 5:00 p.m. daily. <br />3. Exceptions. The permanent water use restrictions do not apply in the following situations: <br />1. Private wells. <br />2. Recently established lawns if permission is granted through a watering restriction <br />waiver form, allowing daily watering for up to 15 days after installation. Watering <br />must still adhere to the restricted hours for the time of day sprinkling ban. New sod <br />or seeded lawns or other landscaping requiring watering, sprinkling, or irrigation, <br />shall not be installed during a water shortage emergency. <br />3. Attended hand-watering of plants, shrubs, trees, and gardens.