Water restrictions in Indianapolis, IN — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Indianapolis water is supplied by Citizens Energy Group, which asks customers to limit lawn watering to one to two times per week on a staggered odd/even address schedule; during severe droughts a Water Conservation Ordinance imposes mandatory bans on lawn and outdoor watering.
Indianapolis does not run a city-ordinance day-of-week sprinkler schedule for ordinary conditions; outdoor water use is managed by Citizens Energy Group, the public charitable trust utility that supplies the area. Citizens asks customers to limit lawn watering to one to two times per week and to follow a staggered schedule: addresses ending in an odd number (1, 3, 5, 7, 9) water Monday and/or Thursday, and addresses ending in an even number (0, 2, 4, 6, 8) water Tuesday and/or Friday. Citizens' Drought Alert Guidelines escalate in tiers: Water Shortage Watch (Tier 1) requests voluntary reductions to no more than two days per week; Water Shortage Alert (Tier 2) makes the two-day limit mandatory; Water Shortage Warning (Tier 3) triggers mandatory restrictions via the Water Conservation Ordinance that ban lawn irrigation with limited exceptions such as vegetable gardens; and Water Shortage Emergency (Tier 4) bans outdoor water uses including lawn irrigation, washing cars, and filling pools, again with limited exceptions.
Voluntary at the Watch tier. Mandatory lawn-watering limits apply at the Alert tier and outright bans apply at the Warning and Emergency tiers under the Water Conservation Ordinance; Citizens Energy Group enforces drought-stage restrictions for its customers.
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