Level 1 Water Supply Shortage Voluntary Measures

1. Stop washing down paved surfaces, including but not limited to sidewalks, driveways, parking lots, tennis courts, or patios, except when it is necessary to alleviate safety or sanitation hazards.
2. Stop water waste resulting from inefficient landscape irrigation, such as runoff, low head drainage, or overspray, etc. Similarly, stop water flows onto non-targeted areas, such as adjacent property, non-irrigated areas, hardscapes, roadways, or structures.
3. Irrigate residential and commercial landscape before 8 a.m. and after 6 p.m. only.
4. Use a hand-held hose equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle or bucket to water landscaped areas, including trees and shrubs located on residential and commercial properties that are not irrigated by a landscape irrigation system.
5. Irrigate nursery and commercial grower's products before 10 a.m. and after 6 p.m. only. Watering is permitted at any time with a hand-held hose equipped with a positive shut-off nozzle, a bucket, or when a drip/micro-irrigation system/equipment is used. Irrigation of nursery propagation beds is permitted at any time. Watering of livestock is permitted at any time.
6. Repair all water leaks within five (5) days of notification by the Olivenhain Municipal Water District unless other arrangements are made with the General Manager.

Level 2 Water Supply Shortage Mandatory Restrictions

1. Limit residential and commercial landscape irrigation to no more than three (3) assigned days per week on the schedule established by OMWD's General Manager.
   This restriction does not apply to commercial or agricultural growers.
2. Limit lawn watering and landscape irrigation sprinkler systems to 10 minutes per watering station per assigned day.
   Exceptions: "efficient" irrigation systems, including, but not limited to: weather-based controllers, drip/micro-irrigation and stream-rotor sprinkler systems.
   Residential and commercial landscaped areas including trees and shrubs not irrigated by irrigation systems, on the same schedule as number 1 above by using a bucket, a hand-held hose with a positive shut-off nozzle, or low-volume, non-spray irrigation system.
3. Repair all leaks within 72 hours (3 days) of notification by OMWD, unless alternative arrangements have been authorized by the General Manager.

Level 3 Water Supply Shortage Mandatory Restrictions

1. Summer from June through October: limit residential and commercial landscape irrigation to no more than two (2) assigned days per week on the schedule established by OMWD's General Manager.
   Winter from November through May: residential and commercial landscape irrigation is limited to no more than one (1) day a week per the schedule established by OMWD's General Manager.
   This restriction does not apply to commercial or agricultural growers.
2. Residential and commercial landscaped areas including trees and shrubs not irrigated by irrigation systems, on the same schedule as number 1 above by using a bucket, a hand-held hose with a positive shut-off nozzle, or low-volume non-spray irrigation system.
3. Stop filling and/or refilling all ornamental lakes or ponds unless it is necessary to sustain valuable aquatic life that were managed in the lake or pond prior to declaration of a Level 3 Water Supply Shortage.
4. Stop washing all vehicles except at commercial car washing facilities that use recycled water or high-pressure/low volume wash systems.
5. Repair all leaks with-in 48 hours (2 days) of notification by OMWD, unless alternative arrangements have been authorized by the General Manager.

Level 4 Water Supply Shortage Mandatory Restrictions

1. Stop all residential and commercial landscape irrigation, with the following exceptions:
   • Crops and landscape products of commercial growers and nurseries.
   • Residential and commercial landscaped areas including trees and shrubs not irrigated by irrigation systems, on the same schedule as number 1 above by using a bucket, a hand-held hose with a positive shut-off nozzle, or low-volume non-spray irrigation system.
   • Maintenance of existing landscape necessary for fire protection as determined by the Fire Marshal of the fire protection agency that is jurisdictionally and legally responsible for the property in question.
   • Maintenance of existing landscaping for erosion control.
   • Maintenance of plants that are identified as rare or essential to rare animals.
   • Maintenance of landscaping in public parks, playing fields, day care centers, school grounds, cemeteries, and golf course greens. Watering no more than two (2) days per week per the schedule outlined under Level 3 Water Supply Shortage above.
   • Watering of livestock.
   • Public works projects and irrigation necessary to maintain active environmental mitigation projects.
2. Repair all leaks within twenty-four hours (1 day) of notification by OMWD, unless alternative arrangements have been authorized by the General Manager.
3. OMWD may establish a property water allocation taking care not to penalize customers that have implemented water conservation methods or have installed water saving devices. Customers will be notified in their regular billing statement of their water allocation and the effective date for compliance. Customers using more than their allocation will be subject to a penalty, ranging from two to four (2-4) times the Metropolitan Tier 2 rate.

Violations and Penalties

Section 11.0 Violations and Penalties

1. Any person, who uses, causes to be used, or permits the use of water in violation of this ordinance is guilty of an offense punishable as provided herein.
2. Each day that a violation of this ordinance occurs is a separate offense.
3. Administrative fines may be levied for each violation of a provision of this ordinance as follows:
   1. A warning will be issued at the sole discretion of the General Manager for the first violation.
   2. The customer will be fined one hundred dollars for a second violation.
   3. The customer will be fined two hundred dollars for a third violation of any provision of this ordinance within one year.
   4. The customer will be fined five hundred dollars for each additional violation of this ordinance within one year.
4. Any violation of a provision of this ordinance is subject to enforcement through installation of a flow-restricting device in the meter.
5. Each violation of this ordinance may be prosecuted as a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than thirty (30) days or by a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both as provided in Water Code section 377.
6. Willful violations of the mandatory conservation measures and water use restrictions as set forth in Section 7.0 and applicable during a Level 4 Water Supply Shortage may be enforced by discontinuing service to the property at which the violation occurs as provided by Water Code section 356.
7. All remedies provided for herein shall be cumulative and not exclusive.