With ongoing droughts across most of Texas, experts say you need to conserve as much water as possible. If you don’t, it will cause problems for everyone.
“It doesn’t matter whether we’re in a drought or not. Residents and businesses are restricted,” said Aubrey Spear, director of water utilities.
Two days per week year-round is the amount of times you can water your lawn. It’s not only to conserve our water sources, but if you don’t obey it, you could get fined up to a couple hundred dollars.
“The City of Lubbock has been very proactive in the last 10 years in trying to educate the public in the smart use of water outdoors,” said Spear.
While Lubbock is not one of the cities in Texas with a water shortage, it’s still an important schedule to follow.
“We can actually continue to reduce our water consumption during our summer months, which we tend to use it much more,” Spear said.
The more water you use, the more you pay per thousand gallons, which could cost you a good amount of money.
“We have both reservoirs and drought water to draw from and because of that, we have four different supplies. It’s very helpful during these times when reservoirs may not be getting any in-flows that we can draw more on the ground water supply that we have,” Spear said.
Lubbock is one of the six cities in Texas with twice a week watering restrictions year-round. With those in place, we’ll most likely never have any drought restrictions because we’re already being careful with our water.
“We’ve seen a dramatic reduction whc has saved our customers in the pocket book,” said Spear.
Irrigation Schedule:
Landscape irrigation is restricted to two days per week year-round. Irrigation schedules are based on the last digits of the house number.
– Monday and Thursday – 0,3,4,9
-Tuesday and Friday – 1,5,6
-Wednesday and Saturday – 2,7,8
