Water restrictions in Lakewood, OH — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Lakewood imposes no mandatory lawn-watering ban; it buys water from Cleveland and offers a voluntary Summer Sprinkling Program that credits summer outdoor water use against the sewer charge.
No Lakewood-specific ordinance directly addresses mandatory lawn-watering restrictions or drought irrigation bans; the Ohio default of unrestricted permitted use applies, and Lakewood contracts with the City of Cleveland for clean drinking water drawn from Lake Erie. The City's only watering-related program is incentive-based: the Summer Sprinkling Program lets qualifying resident homeowners (one to four family units, in good standing, resident since January 1) have their June through September sewer charges calculated on their January-April average usage, so extra summer activity 'such as filling a pool or watering a lawn' is not billed as sewer. Applications are due by April 30th, and the program does not replace the City's existing sewer-exempt or sprinkler-meter programs. There is no cap or schedule on outdoor watering.
No penalty - outdoor watering is unrestricted; the Summer Sprinkling Program is a voluntary billing benefit, not a regulation.
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