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Watering restrictions

Know Your Days

Mandatory lawn watering restrictions specify the days when you may water. These days depend on whether you have an odd or even numbered address, and the time of year.

Time of
year

Homes with odd numbered or no addresses

Homes with even numbered addresses

Nonresidential properties

Daylight
saving
time

Wednesday/Saturday

Thursday/Sunday

Tuesday/Friday

Eastern
Standard
Time

Saturday

Sunday

Tuesday
  • Daylight saving time:
    Second Sunday in March until the first Sunday in November
  • Eastern Standard Time:
    First Sunday in November until the second Sunday in March
  • An odd numbered address is one that ends in 1, 3, 5, 7 or 9.
  • An even numbered address is one that ends in 0, 2, 4, 6 or 8.
  • Water only when needed and not between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.
  • Water for no more than one hour per zone.
  • Restrictions apply to private wells and pumps, ground or surface water and water from public and private utilities.
  • Some exceptions apply.

Summary of restrictions and exceptions

  • Districtwide watering restrictions
  • Marion County watering restrictions — All of Marion County, including the city of Ocala, is to follow the St. Johns restrictions. The only exceptions are The Villages and the city of Dunnellon.
  • Alachua County watering restrictions — All of unincorporated Alachua County, and Hawthorne, Micanopy and those portions of Gainesville and Waldo that are within the St. Johns River Water Management District are to follow the St. Johns restrictions. The watering restrictions do not apply in Alachua, Archer, High Springs, LaCrosse and Newberry (these cities are within the Suwannee River Water Management District and have not adopted a landscape irrigation ordinance), or those portions of Gainesville or Waldo lying within the Suwannee River Water Management District.
  • Local government ordinances implementing the watering restrictions
  • Model ordinance for local governments
  • Rule PDF Icon
  • Standard general consumptive use permit application form for landscape irrigation PDF Icon

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