Water restrictions in Charlotte County, FL — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Charlotte County sits in the Southwest Florida Water Management District (Swiftmud) and enforces a once-per-week irrigation schedule assigned by the last digit of the street address, morning hours only. Florida Statute 373.62 requires a working shutoff sensor on every automatic sprinkler.
Charlotte County follows SWFWMD conservation rules, limiting landscape irrigation to one day per week set by the last digit of the address: 0 or 1 Monday, 2 or 3 Tuesday, 4 or 5 Wednesday, 6 or 7 Thursday, 8 or 9 Friday. Watering is allowed in the early morning only, and hand watering or micro-irrigation of plants rather than lawns is exempt any day. Florida Statute 373.62 separately requires every automatic sprinkler system to have working technology that shuts it off during sufficient moisture. During declared shortages the district and county tighten the window further, most recently to the 12:01 a.m. to 4 a.m. period under a Modified Phase III order.
Watering outside your assigned day or hours violates the county and SWFWMD schedule, drawing a warning then escalating fines. Running an automatic system without a working rain or moisture sensor violates Florida Statute 373.62.
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