Water restrictions in Hamilton County, IN — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Hamilton County has no permanent day-of-week watering schedule. Most residents get water from Citizens Water, which shares Indianapolis's reservoirs. In dry summers, cities like Fishers issue mandatory conservation orders that restrict lawn watering, car washing, and pool filling until lifted.
Indiana does not impose statewide residential watering schedules, and Hamilton County sets no permanent lawn-watering limit. Water for Carmel, Fishers, Westfield, and Noblesville largely comes from Citizens Water, drawing on the same central-Indiana reservoirs as Indianapolis. During drought, the town/city can issue a mandatory water conservation order: Fishers' conservation ordinance (Chapter 52) prohibits sprinkling or irrigating grass, washing vehicles, cleaning paved surfaces, filling empty pools, installing new sod, and running non-recirculating fountains while the order is in effect. Limited exceptions allow watering vegetable gardens and flowers every other day by container or a hand-held hose with a shut-off nozzle. Restrictions apply only when declared and are lifted when reservoir levels recover, so normal watering is otherwise allowed.
Violating an active conservation order can bring municipal fines and, for repeat offenders, escalating penalties or utility enforcement. Outside a declared order, ordinary lawn and garden watering is permitted with no fine.
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