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 irrigation systems with sprinklers or drippers on your watering days, EITHER once in the morning before 9 am or once in the evening after 6 pm
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.
Water grass covered sporting grounds using sprinklers, EITHER once before 9 am or after 6 pm, 3 days per week
Top up a swimming pool
Fill a new swimming pool or spa
Wash your car
Only 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 up a chemical spill); and
construct, demolish or repair buildings, paved areas and roads.
- Test your irrigation system on your allocated watering days and times following repairs to the pipework, 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.
- Employ a professional in the irrigation, turf, garden or landscaping industries to test your irrigation system on or outside of your allocated watering days and times, however;
- testing is limited to a maximum of two minutes per station
- the professional must be in attendance in the garden area where the sprinklers are operating;
- appropriate signage indicating that testing is in progress must be clearly displayed; and
- inspectors will ask to view repairs
You can't
- Water gardens and lawns using irrigation systems in BOTH the morning and evening of your allocated watering days.
- Water lawns and gardens using irrigation systems between the hours of 9 am and 6 pm.
- Clean driveways, walls or windows of buildings with a hose.
- Run your irrigation outside your allowed watering days or times to:
- see if the system is operating; or
- adjust sprays on sprinklers