Rock Hill, SC Water Use Rules: Leak Reporting Duty (2026)

Rock Hill's drought response ordinance authorizes the city to cut off water to customers who ignore leak repair notices. 3). 4). Alongside the customer-facing notice, the city commits its own crews to the same problem: each drought stage section directs the city to "intensify maintenance efforts to identify and correct water leaks in the distribution system" (§§ 29-274(3), 29-275(3), 29-277(4)). The Stage 2 restrictions also encourage customers toward low-volume drip irrigation and smart irrigation systems reviewed and approved by the city's utilities director as a way to cut leak-prone landscape water loss (§ 29-275(2)d).

Enforcement of the notice-and-cutoff process runs through the drought response representative and city manager, with designated law enforcement and other city-authorized agencies empowered to enforce the article generally (§ 29-280). Because the leak-repair notice provision is embedded in the drought ordinance rather than freestanding, its cutoff power is most clearly triggered once a drought stage has been declared, though the ten-day notice language itself is not expressly limited to declared-drought periods.