Water restrictions in Fort Lauderdale, FL — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Fort Lauderdale follows the South Florida Water Management District's mandatory year-round landscape irrigation rule, which limits irrigation to set days by address and bans watering between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.; Florida Statute 373.62 separately requires automatic sprinkler systems to have a moisture/rain shut-off device.
Outdoor irrigation in Fort Lauderdale is governed by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) year-round Mandatory Landscape Irrigation Conservation Measures, which apply to all of Broward County including the city. In Broward's two-day-per-week schedule, even-numbered (and no-address) locations may irrigate only on Thursdays and/or Sundays and odd-numbered addresses only on Wednesdays and/or Saturdays, and no landscape irrigation is allowed between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. on any day. Hand watering with a self-cancelling (automatic shut-off) nozzle, and low-volume micro-irrigation, are allowed at any time. Statewide, Florida Statute 373.62(1) requires that 'Any person who purchases and installs an automatic landscape irrigation system must properly install, maintain, and operate technology that inhibits or interrupts operation of the system during periods of sufficient moisture,' which in practice means a working rain-sensor or soil-moisture shut-off. These restrictions are enforced by SFWMD, local governments, and law enforcement.
SFWMD's year-round measures are mandatory and enforceable by the District, local governments, and law enforcement; repeat or willful violations of irrigation-day and time limits can result in code-enforcement citations and fines. Failure to install or maintain a required rain/moisture shut-off device on an automatic sprinkler system violates Fla. Stat. 373.62.
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