Water restrictions in Paulding County, GA — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Under Georgia's Water Stewardship Act, Paulding County allows landscape watering any day but only between 4 p.m. and 10 a.m. As a Metro North Georgia Water District member, the county tightens to a two-day odd/even schedule when Georgia EPD declares a drought.
Outdoor watering across Paulding follows the permanent 2010 Water Stewardship Act rule (O.C.G.A. §12-5-7): irrigation is allowed any day but only between 4 p.m. and 10 a.m., skipping the midday evaporation window. Hand-watering with an automatic cutoff, drip and soaker hoses, food gardens, newly installed turf for 30 days, and private wells are exempt at any hour. Paulding sits inside the Metropolitan North Georgia Water Planning District, so when Georgia EPD declares a Level 2 drought the schedule drops to two assigned days a week by odd or even address. The Paulding County Water System (770-222-6850) enforces locally.
Watering outside the allowed window or a declared drought schedule brings warnings, then escalating fines and possible service action under Paulding County Water System rules. There is no direct state penalty on the homeowner.
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