Water restrictions in Wauwatosa, WI — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
Milwaukee County sets no lawn-watering or sprinkling restrictions. Water is supplied by municipal utilities, chiefly Milwaukee Water Works for the City of Milwaukee, drawing from Lake Michigan, plus suburban systems. Any watering limits come from your water utility, not the county.
Milwaukee County does not run a water utility and imposes no county-wide watering or irrigation restrictions. Drinking water and any conservation or sprinkling rules are set by municipal utilities. Milwaukee Water Works, part of the City of Milwaukee Department of Public Works, supplies the city and wholesales Lake Michigan water to many surrounding communities, while suburbs such as Wauwatosa, West Allis, and Oak Creek run their own utilities or buy water. Because the region draws from Lake Michigan, restrictions are driven by peak-demand management, not scarcity, and any odd/even sprinkling schedule or time-of-day limit is adopted by the individual utility. To learn whether limits apply, contact your water provider. County parkland irrigation is managed separately by county staff.
Since the county has no watering ordinance, any penalty for over-watering, off-schedule sprinkling, or wasting water is issued by your municipal water utility, typically a citation with an escalating fine. Milwaukee Water Works and suburban utilities enforce their own rules.
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