Alternate Day Lawn Watering Ordinance
Mandatory Lawn Watering Ordinance – see
recent revision in red below
We appreciate the excellent cooperation our citizens have given
us in the past in adhering to the Alternate Day Lawn Watering
program. As part of the City’s ongoing efforts to reduce our water
usage during peak hours, City Council has approved an amendment to
the Lawn Watering Ordinance which will help to lower the water rate
we pay to Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (our water
provider). The Ordinance now requires, in addition to alternate day
watering, that automatic, programmable underground sprinkler systems
only operate during non-peak hours of 11:00 pm and 5:00 am. We ask
for your support by programming your sprinkler system to operate
between the hours of 11:00 pm and 5:00 am on an alternate day basis.
Section 34-24 Alternate day lawn watering; water supply
emergencies, (a),
"It shall be unlawful for any person to utilize water from the
City of Novi Water Supply System for the watering of lawns or
landscaping except on an alternate day basis. An alternate day basis
of watering permits the watering of lawns and landscaping on
even-numbered days for properties with an even-numbered address and
on odd-numbered days for properties with an odd-numbered street
address. Further, for those properties in the
City of Novi that utilize water from the City of Novi Water Supply
System and are serviced by an automatic, programmable underground
irrigation system, outdoor watering, including the sprinkling of
lawns and landscaping, shall only be done during non-peak hours of
11:00pm to 5:00am.”
To determine if an address is even or odd numbered refer to the
last number in the street address. Even-numbered addresses end with
a 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 and odd-numbered addresses end with a 1, 3, 5, 7,
or 9.
Why do we have the alternate day lawn watering program? There are
two reasons:
1. The City of Novi is a wholesale customer of the Detroit Water
and Sewerage Department (DWSD). Two of the major factors that DWSD
uses to establish our wholesale water rate are Peak Day and Peak
Hour purchases. If we adhere to the alternate day water cycle and
shift our peak hour usage to the exclusionary period (11:00pm to
5:00am) we can level out our Peak Day and Peak Hour factors, which
result in lower wholesale water rates.
2. During the high demand periods of May through September we
routinely experience low system pressures in some sections of the
city. The Alternate Day Lawn Watering program helps us ensure that
we can provide water pressure to meet the domestic and fire flow
requirements of all of our customers.
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