Tamarac, FL Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)

Tamarac Code § 22-301 defines reclaimed water as wastewater that has received at least secondary treatment and basic disinfection and is reused after flowing out of a wastewater treatment facility, as defined by Rule 62-40.210, Florida Administrative Code. Section 22-302 sets the scope of the city's landscape irrigation article, applying it to every user drawing landscape irrigation water from water resources within Tamarac, but expressly carving out athletic play areas, agricultural operations including nurseries, and irrigation accomplished using reclaimed water or saltwater. That carve-out means a property irrigating exclusively with reclaimed water is not bound by the odd/even address watering-day schedule, the 7:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daytime ban, or the ninety-day new-landscaping rules set out in Section 22-303 for other water sources.

Section 22-302 also provides that a South Florida Water Management District water shortage or water shortage emergency declaration supersedes the city's irrigation article for its duration, but that declaration likewise does not apply to users irrigating with reclaimed water or saltwater. Because reclaimed water in Tamarac comes from the wastewater treatment process rather than the potable or well supply the district manages under Chapter 40E-21, F.A.C., the city treats it as outside the water-conservation article's core watering-day scheme entirely.