Water restrictions in Lubbock County, TX — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Semi-arid Lubbock sits over the depleting Ogallala Aquifer, so the City of Lubbock enforces mandatory two-day-per-week lawn watering by address, with no watering allowed 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. April through September. The county sets no watering rule.
As a can't-zone Texas county, Lubbock County imposes no landscape watering schedule; conservation rules come from the City of Lubbock's Water Conservation Plan and the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District. City customers must irrigate only on two assigned days set by the last digit of the street address, and daytime watering between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. is prohibited from April 1 through September 30 to cut evaporation loss on the High Plains. Hand watering with a hose is allowed any day and time, and newly installed plants may be watered more often until established. Rural residents on private wells follow water-district rules instead.
City of Lubbock water customers who irrigate off-schedule or during prohibited daytime hours face escalating penalties under the Water Conservation Plan and drought contingency stages.
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