Water restrictions in Madison County, AL — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Alabama sets no statewide lawn-watering ban. In Madison County, restrictions come from your water provider, triggered when the state Office of Water Resources issues a drought declaration under Ala. Code §9-10C-8.
There is no single water utility over the whole of Madison County; the Madison County Water Department serves the unincorporated valley, while Huntsville Utilities serves the city, both drawing on the Tennessee River and the region's limestone aquifer. Alabama's Office of Water Resources, under the Drought Planning and Response Act, issues drought declarations that grade conditions from a watch to an emergency, and §9-10C-8 gives it that authority based on stream flow, reservoir, and rainfall data. Those declarations are advisory at the state level, but water providers translate them into mandatory odd-even or day-of-week irrigation schedules and, in a severe drought, outdoor-watering bans.
Watering outside your provider's declared drought schedule draws warnings, surcharges, and escalating fines under the utility's rules, and can lead to service restriction. There is no state penalty on the homeowner directly.
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