Water restrictions in Hidalgo County, TX — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Hidalgo County does not set landscape-watering schedules; it has no such ordinance and no county water utility. Outdoor-watering limits come from each city, water supply corporation, and irrigation district, coordinated through regional drought planning and the TCEQ, since the county draws Rio Grande water via Falcon Reservoir.
Hidalgo County has no county-run water system and no landscape-irrigation ordinance, so it cannot impose day-of-week or time-of-day watering rules. Water is supplied and regulated by cities, by supply corporations such as North Alamo, and by irrigation/water districts including Hidalgo County Irrigation District No. 1 and Sharyland (No. 15), all drawing Rio Grande water from Falcon Reservoir. Each supplier files its own Drought Contingency Plan with the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ), which sets the stages and outdoor-watering restrictions enforced against customers. Because the Valley recurrently faces severe drought, the county has convened its cities and districts to try to unify drought triggers, but that does not replace each utility's plan. Watering limits depend on who bills you.
The county issues no water-waste citations because it has no watering ordinance. Enforcement of watering-day and stage restrictions is by the city or water/irrigation district under its TCEQ-filed Drought Contingency Plan, which can impose surcharges, fines, or service penalties.
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