On Sunday, March 8, new restrictions specifying the days of the week
for landscape irrigation will become effective across North Central Florida, as water management districts try to ease the effects of drought and excessive consumption. Counties in our area that will need to restrict water usage include all of Marion County, as well as portions of Clay, Bradford, Putnam, Alachua, Levy and  Lake Counties.

Under the new
restrictions, landscape irrigation will be limited to two days a week
during daylight saving time and one day a week during Eastern Standard
Time.

The restrictions apply to water withdrawn from ground or
surface water, from a private well or pump, or from a public or private
water utility, but they do not apply to irrigation using reclaimed
water or storm water.

Some of the provisions include:

• During
  daylight saving time, which also begins March 8, specified days of the
  week that residential and nonresidential users can irrigate are:

  o Wednesday and Saturday for residential landscape irrigation at odd numbered addresses or no address

  o Thursday and Sunday for residential landscape irrigation at even numbered addresses

  o Tuesday and Friday for nonresidential landscape irrigation

  o No irrigation allowed between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

  o
  Limited to 3/4 inch of water per irrigation zone and to no more than
  one hour per irrigation zone on each day that irrigation occurs

• When Eastern Standard Time is in effect, residential landscape irrigation will be limited to one day a week.

  o Saturday at odd numbered addresses or no address

  o Sunday at even numbered addresses

  o Tuesday for nonresidential landscape irrigation

  o No irrigation allowed between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m.

  o
  Limited to 3/4 inch of water per irrigation zone and to no more than
  one hour per irrigation zone on each day that irrigation occurs