Water restrictions in Tualatin, OR — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Tualatin has no mandatory day-of-week outdoor watering schedule. The city buys water wholesale from the Portland Water Bureau and asks residents to follow the Regional Water Providers Consortium's voluntary Weekly Watering Number guidance from April through September.
Tualatin's drinking water comes from the Portland Water Bureau (Bull Run Watershed and Columbia South Shore Well Field) under a wholesale contract, supplemented by a state-licensed Aquifer Storage and Recovery (ASR) well for peak summer demand. The city is a member of the Regional Water Providers Consortium. The Consortium publishes a 'Weekly Watering Number' every Thursday from April through September telling residents how many inches lawns need that week. Compliance is voluntary — the Tualatin Municipal Code does not establish mandatory outdoor watering days, irrigation hours, or drought stages. The city can declare a water emergency if regional shortages occur, but no standing TMC schedule is in force.
Because outdoor watering is voluntary, there is no routine civil penalty for over-irrigation. If the city declares a water emergency, mandatory restrictions could be imposed by separate order; water waste from a broken system can still trigger a utility notice.
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