Pasco County, FL Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)

Section 110-78, the 'Restrictions' provision of Pasco County's Reclaimed Water System article (Chapter 110, Article III), locks down who may touch the county's purple-pipe reuse network and how it may be used. No individual or organization may tamper with, work on, or alter any county reclaimed water facility without the county administrator's written authorization; an offender is liable for the cost of correcting the tampering plus attorney's fees, and the county may sue for legal or equitable relief. To protect the separation between potable and reclaimed supplies, the county bars using potable water for irrigation through a second meter, and bars installing or rehabilitating an irrigation well, on any property within 100 feet of existing reclaimed water distribution facilities; it will not extend reclaimed service at all where shallow wells supply potable water or where the state's required buffer zone cannot be maintained, and it bars new shallow potable wells within 75 feet of a reuse site.

A single-family reclaimed water customer may not inject any chemical into the system; other users who need chemical injection must first install an approved cross-connection control assembly. The section also flatly bans any cross connection between two or more water supplies, any illegal tie-in, or discharge of reclaimed water into the public sewer, and prohibits subletting or renting use of the reclaimed system, connecting a temporary irrigation system, or installing any aboveground faucet or device that could let reclaimed water be used for anything but irrigation, unless the utilities director approves that use in writing. Section 110-77 backs this up physically, requiring purple-coded pipe and a minimum ten-foot separation between a reclaimed connection and any potable water meter.