Water restrictions in Horry County, SC — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Horry County sets no countywide lawn-watering schedule, and South Carolina has no statewide mandatory outdoor-watering restriction. Your water utility governs. Grand Strand Water & Sewer Authority serves most unincorporated areas and may request voluntary odd/even conservation during declared droughts.
Horry County does not impose a general ordinance limiting the days or hours residents may irrigate lawns, and South Carolina has no statewide year-round watering ban; the SC Drought Response Act (S.C. Code Title 49, Chapter 23) lets the state Drought Response Committee and local providers impose restrictions only during declared drought stages. In practice, watering rules come from your water provider: Grand Strand Water & Sewer Authority (GSWSA) supplies most of unincorporated Horry County (Socastee, Carolina Forest, Conway area, Surfside), while Myrtle Beach and North Myrtle Beach run their own utilities. During declared droughts, providers typically ask for voluntary odd/even address-based irrigation and may escalate to mandatory limits. Well owners on private groundwater are largely unrestricted outside a capacity-use
There is no county fine for ordinary lawn watering. Mandatory restrictions only take effect if the state declares a drought stage or your utility imposes limits; penalties are then set by that utility or the state Drought Response Act, not
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