Water restrictions in Birmingham, AL — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Birmingham has no permanent municipal lawn-watering ordinance. Outdoor watering limits are set by the Birmingham Water Works Board through voluntary drought-stage advisories tied to reservoir conditions.
No Birmingham-specific city ordinance directly imposes routine outdoor-watering restrictions; water service is provided by the independent Birmingham Water Works Board (BWW), which manages conservation through staged drought advisories rather than a year-round schedule. Under a Stage 2 Drought Watch, BWW asks customers to follow an odd/even outdoor-watering schedule (even-numbered addresses water established lawns and landscaping Mondays and Thursdays; odd-numbered addresses Tuesdays and Fridays), to avoid watering between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., and to do no outdoor watering on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays; new lawns and landscaping are exempt from the day-of-week limits for the first 30 days after installation. These remain voluntary 'reduction in usage' measures unless escalated; only at Stage 3 (Drought Warning) can BWW impose surcharges. At the state level, the Alabama Office of Water Resources / ADECA issues drought declarations that may trigger such advisories.
Stage 1-2 measures are voluntary requests with no fine. At Stage 3 (Drought Warning), Birmingham Water Works may impose surcharges on excess usage. There is no municipal citation for routine lawn watering.
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