Whitfield County, GA Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)

Sec. , but two of its listed exceptions specifically address reused and reclaimed water. window as long as it follows the state gray water statute and the local board of health's rules. Subsection (d) separately exempts use of reclaimed waste water by a designated user from a system permitted by the Environmental Protection Division of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources to provide reclaimed wastewater, covering water reuse tied to Georgia EPD-issued wastewater reuse permits. Both exemptions sit alongside the ordinance's other carve-outs, capturing and reusing cooling-system condensate or stormwater under (b), and private well or on-site surface water use under (i), reflecting the county's approach of restricting only conventional daytime sprinkler use rather than water reuse generally.

Because these are exemptions from a restriction rather than an affirmative local recycled-water program, a property owner seeking to install gray water or reclaimed-water irrigation must still hold the state permits the ordinance cross-references; Whitfield County itself does not issue a separate reclaimed-water permit under this section. Enforcement of the outdoor-watering article as a whole runs through Sec. 5-82, administered by Dalton-Whitfield Building Inspections and Enforcement and the Dalton-Whitfield Planning Office.