Collier County, FL Landscaping Rules: Rainwater Harvesting (2026)

Sec. and limiting most properties to two or three assigned watering days tied to whether their address is odd or even. Paragraph (4) then carves out an explicit exception for water-conserving delivery methods: any plant material may be watered using low volume irrigation, micro-irrigation, low-volume hand watering methods, and rain barrels, cisterns, or other similar rain-harvesting devices without regard to the watering days or times allowed pursuant to the section. ban either, because the exemption applies without regard to the watering days or times. The exemption covers only the timing restriction, not other duties in the article: a user relying on rain-harvesting equipment must still avoid 'wasteful and unnecessary' water use as defined in Sec.

54-367(p), and the County may still impose additional restrictions during a declared water shortage or water-shortage emergency under Sec. 54-369, which can override the ordinary schedule for all users, rain barrels included, if the South Florida Water Management District's Governing Board so orders.