Weber County, UT Landscaping Rules: Water Restrictions (2026)

010 of the Land Use Code sets up Weber County's dual-water framework: new subdivisions must connect to both a culinary water system and a secondary (irrigation) water system, or qualify for a private well under Local Health Department and Utah Division of Water Rights standards. Once that secondary system is in place, the code's culinary water restriction kicks in: unless the culinary provider expressly signs off, no culinary water may be used to run sprinklers or any other irrigation method on the lot. The culinary provider, not county code enforcement, has the authority to act directly against a property found using drinking water outdoors without permission, since the provider is the one that verified the secondary system could handle the lot's irrigation demand before agreeing to serve it.

The section also sets the underlying secondary water duty: if secondary water comes from a private well, the default allocation must cover 30 percent of the lot, rising to the actual watered area if more is irrigated, with drought-tolerant landscaping and a recorded restrictive covenant able to reduce that share. Lots left in undisturbed native wildland vegetation are exempt from the secondary water requirement altogether, provided a covenant restricting future landscaping changes is recorded against the parcel. This whole framework was rewritten twice in 2026, under Ordinance 2026-09 and Ordinance 2026-13, making it one of the most recently amended sections in the subdivision title.