Dos and Don'ts for sprinklers and outdoor use
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Water a commercial market garden or plant nursery
Water lawns and gardens using reticulation systems with sprinklers or drippers on your watering days, EITHER once in the morning before 9am or once in the evening after 6pm
Water lawns and gardens with a hand held hose or watering can
You can apply for an exemption for additional watering times/days if you are establishing a new lawn or garden. Please refer to 'Watering Exemptions' page under 'Sprinklers and Outdoor Use' section.
Top up a swimming pool
Fill a new swimming pool or spa
Wash your car
Use a high pressure water cleaner or hand held hose to spray buildings, building sites, demolition sites, paths, paved areas and roads to:
fight fires;
avoid a threat to public health or safety (eg: cleaning a chemical spill); and
construct, demolish or repair buildings, paved areas and roads.
Test your reticulation system outside your allowed watering days and times following repairs to the pipe work. However:
testing is limited to a maximum of two minutes per station;
you must be in attendance in the garden area where the sprinklers are operating; and
inspectors will ask to view repairs.
You can't
- Water gardens and lawns using reticulation systems in BOTH the morning and evening of your allocated watering days.
- Water lawns and gardens using reticulation systems between the hours of 9am and 6pm.
- Clean driveways, walls or windows of buildings with a hose.
- Run your reticulation outside your allowed watering days or times to:
- see if the system is operating; or
- adjust sprays on sprinklers.