Exempted Outdoor Water Use Methods for Landscape Use

The Georgia Water Stewardship Act went into effect statewide on June 2, 2010. It allows daily outdoor watering for purposes of planting, growing, managing, or maintaining ground cover, trees, shrubs, or other plants only between the hours of 4 p.m. and 10 a.m. by anyone whose water is supplied by Dalton Utilities.

The following outdoor watering options may be used at ANY TIME of day with no hourly restrictions:

• Drip irrigation or use of soaker hoses
• Handwatering with a hose with automatic cutoff or handheld container
• Use of water withdrawn from private water wells or surface water on private property
• Capture and reuse of cooling system condensate or stormwater
• Reuse of gray water
• Use of reclaimed wastewater by a designated user

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