Water restrictions in Scott County, MN — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Most unincorporated Scott County homes draw from private wells with no city sprinkling ban, though large wells need a DNR appropriation permit. In Shakopee, Savage, and Prior Lake, metro odd/even watering schedules and time-of-day limits apply.
Scott County runs no water utility. In the townships, most properties are on private wells; a household well faces no municipal sprinkling schedule, but any high-capacity well pumping over 10,000 gallons a day or one million gallons a year needs a water-appropriation permit from the Minnesota DNR, which carries conservation conditions. Inside the cities it is different: Shakopee, Savage, Prior Lake, and Jordan operate municipal systems and impose the Twin Cities metro's familiar odd/even address watering schedule and time-of-day limits, tightening during declared drought under Metropolitan Council conservation planning.
On municipal systems, watering outside the posted odd/even schedule brings warnings then escalating fines from the city utility. Pumping a high-capacity well without a DNR appropriation permit is a violation enforced by the state.
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