(A) No person shall cause, use, or permit the use of water from the city water system in a manner contrary to any provision of this chapter.
(B) No person shall cause, use, or permit the use of water from the city water system in excess of any limit established by the City Council by resolution.
(C) Phase I. The following water use restrictions shall be in effect and will be enforced on all customers and any other person who uses water from the city’s potable water system for any purpose. For the purpose of this chapter, the term PERSON shall include individuals and corporations, partnerships, and associations of any kind:
(1) No person shall use a hose to wash any sidewalk, walkway, driveway, parking area, tennis or sport court, or other paved surfaces, except as is required for sanitary purposes, and only with a water broom or similar device or hose equipped with a nozzle or quick relief shutoff valve.
(2) Washing of motor vehicles, trailers, boats and other types of mobile equipment shall be permitted only with a hand-held bucket or a hose equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle for quick rinses and the water flow shall be shut off when not rinsing the vehicle, except that washing may be done at the immediate premises of a commercial car wash.
(3) No water shall be used to clean, fill or maintain levels in decorative fountains, ponds, lakes or other similar aesthetic structures unless such water is part of recirculating system.
(4) No restaurant, hotel, café, cafeteria or other public place where food is sold, served or offered for sale shall serve drinking water to any customer unless expressly requested by that customer.
(5) All customers shall promptly repair all leaks from indoor and outdoor plumbing fixtures within 48 hours of discovery.
(6) The following restrictions shall apply to all residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and public landscaped areas, with the exception of commercial nurseries, golf courses and other water dependent uses:
(a) No person shall spray irrigate any lawn or landscape area more than every third day between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m of the following day. This division shall not apply to any drip irrigation system, irrigation system maintenance, leak repair or new planting of low water usage plants or if reclaimed water is utilized as permitted by law.
(b) No person shall irrigate any landscaped area for more than 15 minutes per watering day.
(c) No person shall permit or cause irrigation water to spray or flow to any impermeable private or public surface, including but not limited to, walkways, driveways, sidewalks, alleys, streets, or storm drains.
(d) No person shall operate sprinklers, fountains or other water features when winds are so high as to create water drift causing runoff or flow to any impermeable private or public surface, including, but not limited to, walkways, driveways, sidewalks, alleys, streets, or storm drains.
(e) No person shall water or irrigate any landscaping within 48 hours of a one-tenth of an inch (0.10") or greater rainfall event.
(f) No person shall cause or allow water to run off landscaped areas onto adjoining streets, sidewalks or other paved areas due to incorrectly directed or maintained sprinklers or as the result of excessive watering.
(D) Phase II. The following water use restrictions shall be in effect and will be enforced on all customers:
(1) All of the restrictions listed under Phase I shall be in effect, except that the restrictions on watering lawn, landscape or other turf areas shall be modified to prohibit watering more often than every fourth day with watering only allowed between the hours of 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
(2) No customer shall cause, use or permit the use of water for any purpose in an amount in excess of 90% of said customer’s base period allocation.
(3) Commercial nurseries, golf courses and other water-dependent industries shall be prohibited from watering lawn, landscaping or other turf areas more often than every other day, with watering only during the hours between 6:00 p.m. and 8:00 a.m.
(4) Water used on a one-time basis for the purposes such as construction and dust control, shall be limited to that quantity identified in a plan submitted to the user which describes water use requirements. An approved plan from the Department shall be the basis for such usage. Water sources other than potable water shall be utilized where available.
(5) All hotels, motels and bed and breakfast establishments shall provide customers the option of choosing not to have towels laundered daily. Each establishment shall prominently display notice of this option in each bathroom and sleeping room using clear easily understood language. All guest room toilets installed after the effective date of this chapter shall be low flow toilets utilizing the best technology feasible at the time of installation.
(6) All non-residential buildings in the city shall maintain public toilets and urinals with best available technology low flow or waterless toilets or urinals as required by applicable codes, and shall acquire water efficient dishwashers and washing machines upon replacement of existing machines or installation of new machines.
(E) Phase III. The following water use restrictions shall be in effect and will be enforced on all customers:
(1) All of the restrictions listed under Phases I and II shall be in effect.
(2) No customer shall cause, use or permit the use of water for any purpose in an amount in excess of 80% of said customer's base period allocation.
(3) Commercial nurseries, golf courses and other water-dependent industries shall be prohibited from watering lawn, landscape or other turf areas more often than every third day, with watering only during the hours between 6:00 p.m. and 6:00 a.m. the following day.
(4) Water used on a one-time basis for the purposes such as construction and dust control shall be limited to that quantity identified in a plan submitted by the user which describes water use requirements. An approved plan from the Department shall be the basis for such usage. Water sources other than potable water shall be utilized where available.
(5) The use of water from fire hydrants shall be limited to fire fighting and related activities and other uses of water for municipal purposes shall be limited to activities necessary to maintain the public health, safety and welfare.
(F) Phase IV. The following water use restrictions shall be in effect and will be enforced on all customers: The restrictions in a Phase IV shall be the same as Phase III, with the exception that no customer shall cause, use or permit the use of water for any purpose in the amount in excess of 72% of said customer's base period allocation.
(G) Phase V. The following water use restrictions shall be in effect and will be enforced on all customers: The restrictions in Phase V shall be that same as Phase IV, with the exception that no customer shall cause, use or permit the use of water for any purpose in an amount in excess of 60% of said customer's base period allocation.
(H) Phase VI. The following water use restrictions shall be in effect and will be enforced on all customers: The restrictions in Phase VI shall be that of Phase V, with the exception that no customer shall cause, use or permit the use of water for any purpose in an amount in excess of 50% of said customer's base period allocation.
(`83 Code, § 13.20.080) (Ord. 91-08 § 1 (part), 1991; Ord. 92-03 § 1 (part), 1992; Ord. 2014-10 § 1 (part), 2014; Ord. 2015-05 § 3, 2015)