Water restrictions in Menifee, CA — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Menifee is served by Eastern Municipal Water District (EMWD). EMWD's Water Use Efficiency Requirements limit landscape irrigation to 9:00 p.m.–6:00 a.m., cap sprinkler watering at two days per week June through August and one day per week September through May, ban overspray, runoff, and watering during or within 48 hours of measurable rain, and prohibit hosing hard surfaces except for sanitation. EMWD is presently in Stage 1 (Supply Watch) of its Water Shortage Contingency Plan with tighter Stage 2–5 rules on standby.
EMWD's permanent water-waste rules apply year-round to all Menifee retail customers and run alongside Menifee MMC Ch. 15.04 (Landscape Water Use Efficiency). Unattended potable-water irrigation is capped at 15 minutes per station per day; low-flow drip (≤2 gallons/hour per emitter) and weather-based controllers meeting 70% efficiency are exempted from the 15-minute cap. Effective Jan 1, 2025, indoor residential water budgets dropped from 55 to 47 gallons per capita per day (state mandate). EMWD enforces a four-tier rate structure — Low Volume, Budgeted, Excessive, and Wasteful — that penalizes over-budget use through pricing rather than fines. AB 1572 (Cal. Water Code §10608.14) layers a statewide ban on potable irrigation of nonfunctional turf starting Jan 1, 2027 for public/government parcels, Jan 1, 2028 for CII, and Jan 1, 2029 for HOA common areas.
First contact is typically educational; persistent waste (runoff, broken sprinklers, off-schedule watering) triggers Excessive and Wasteful tier billing. Stage 2+ adds explicit prohibitions (ornamental pond filling, washing vehicles with potable water from a non-shutoff hose). Stage activation: EMWD Board action.
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