Water restrictions in York County, SC — also called the watering schedule, outdoor irrigation rules, or drought ordinance — set which days and hours you can run sprinklers or irrigation.
South Carolina sets no statewide lawn-watering ban. In York County, restrictions come from your water provider and the Catawba-Wateree drought plan, triggered when SC DNR declares drought under the Drought Response Act.
York County draws its water from the Catawba River and Lake Wylie, and the systems that serve it, Rock Hill, York, Fort Mill, Tega Cay, and Blue Granite Water, set any mandatory irrigation limits. The SC Drought Response Act directs the Department of Natural Resources to declare drought by stage, and S.C. Code Section 49-23-90 requires every water supplier to develop and implement a drought response ordinance or plan consistent with the state plan. Because Lake Wylie and the Catawba are managed by Duke Energy under the Catawba-Wateree Drought Management Protocol, a declared drought can bring odd-even or day-of-week outdoor watering schedules and, in severe stages, outdoor bans across the metro.
Watering outside your provider's declared schedule brings warnings, surcharges, and escalating fines under the utility's rules, and can lead to flow restriction. There is no direct state penalty on the homeowner.
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