Berwyn, IL Landscaping Rules: Water Restrictions (2026)
Water restrictions in Berwyn, IL, also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance, set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Key Facts
- Season
- May 15 to September 15 each year
- Odd street addresses
- Sprinkle lawns on odd-numbered calendar days only
- Even street addresses
- Sprinkle lawns on even-numbered calendar days only
- Daily blackout
- 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m., all days
- Drought or emergency
- All lawn sprinkling prohibited until it ends
- Maximum fine
- $2,000 per violation, each day separate
Summary
In the City of Berwyn, Illinois, lawn sprinkling between May 15 and September 15 follows an odd-even calendar-day schedule by street address, and it is banned from 12:00 noon to 6:00 p.m. every day. Berwyn Code of Ordinances § 1050.05 also bans all lawn sprinkling once a drought or water emergency is declared.
(A) Between May 15 and September 15 of each calendar year, those persons whose last digit in their street address is an odd number may sprinkle their lawns on odd-numbered calendar days only, ... (B) Between May 15 and September 15 of each calendar year, sprinkling is prohibited between the hours of 12:00 noon and 6:00 p.m. on all days. (C) If a drought or an emergency water shortage is declared by the corporate authorities, all lawn sprinkling is prohibited until such time as the drought or emergency has ended.
Full Breakdown
Section 1050.05 of the Berwyn Code of Ordinances, adopted as Ord. 15-40 on November 10, 2015, sets three lawn-watering limits. Division (A) applies between May 15 and September 15 of each calendar year. A household whose street address ends in an odd digit sprinkles its lawn on odd-numbered calendar days only, and a household whose address ends in an even digit sprinkles on even-numbered days only. An address ending in 7 therefore waters on the 1st, 3rd, 5th and every other odd date, while an address ending in 4 waters on the 2nd, 4th and 6th.
In a 31-day month the 31st and the 1st are both odd dates. Division (B) adds a daily blackout for the same May 15 to September 15 season: sprinkling is prohibited between 12:00 noon and 6:00 p.m. on all days, including a household's assigned day. Division (C) is the emergency switch. If a drought or an emergency water shortage is declared by the corporate authorities, all lawn sprinkling is prohibited until the drought or emergency has ended, and the odd-even schedule stops mattering. The printed text speaks of sprinkling lawns and lawn sprinkling.
It does not mention hand watering of gardens, drip lines or rain barrel water, which is addressed separately in § 1050.06. Chapter 1050 is titled Water Conservation, and the same chapter carries the leak repair rule in § 1050.04. Outside the May 15 to September 15 window, divisions (A) and (B) do not apply, but the drought rule in division (C) has no season limit.
Violations & Fines
Chapter 1050 has no penalty of its own. Section 1050.99 points to the general code penalty in § 202.99: a fine of not more than $2,000 for each violation, with every day the violation continues counted as a separate offense. Sprinkling on the wrong date, sprinkling between noon and 6:00 p.m., or sprinkling during a declared drought can each be charged under that penalty.
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