The Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency Board of Directors voted Tuesday to move into Stage 2 of its Water Shortage Contingency Plan.
The move comes as California and the SCV continue to face a severe drought with no end in sight.
“Despite planning for dry times, this drought has become so severe that we are having to dip into our banked water supplies,” said SCV Water’s General Manager Matt Stone. “Moving to Stage 2 will place new water restrictions in place to eliminate water waste and ensure we have enough water to meet the needs of our community.”
Stage 2 Explained
Stage 2 includes the same restrictions as Stage 1 and adds additional water savings measures.
Customers are requested to voluntarily reduce their water by up to 20%. This information is available at Drought Ready SCV.
New watering requirements effective with Stage 2 include:
— Limits watering to three days per week. Odd addresses will water on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Even addresses water on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday.
— No watering on Saturdays.
— Limits watering station run times. Maximum of two five-minute cycles per station per watering day, 10 minutes
maximum.
— Limits Watering times of day, morning and evening watering. May to October watering is allowed midnight to 9 a.m. and/or 8 p.m. to midnight. November to April watering is allowed midnight to 10 a.m. and/or 6 p.m. to midnight.
The following actions are also prohibited, as established in Phase 1, declared in November 2021:
— Allowing runoff onto non-irrigated areas when irrigating with drinking water.
— Using hoses with no shutoff nozzles to wash cars.
— Using drinking water to wash sidewalks, driveways and hardscapes.
— Irrigating outdoors during and within 48 hours following precipitation of a quarter inch or more.
— The irrigation with drinking water of ornamental turf on public street medians.
Rebates and Resources
SCV Water offers many financial rebates and other incentives to help customers increase water use efficiency, including:
— Turf conversion rebates.
— Irrigation system efficiency upgrade rebates including smart irrigation controllers, high-efficiency sprinkler nozzles, pressure regulating devices, drip irrigation and more.
— Free home drought-ready check-ups.
— Online WaterSMART Workshop, gardening classes and other resources.
A quick 10-minute inspection of the sprinkler system can save considerable water. For homes
businesses, and landscapes, set timers to meet the new watering days and duration and repair
any leaks or overspray. Then inside, check for leaks in toilets and other fixtures.
Click here to learn more about rebates.
Learn More
SCV Water is hosting a Virtual Drought Forum on May 10 at 6 p.m., where attendees will hear
from the experts about drought status, water supply and conservation measures, as well as be
able to ask us questions.
Customers can register here for the Virtual Drought Forum.
Customers can also report suspected water waste here.
Neighboring Agencies
Also, this week, Metropolitan Water District announced a Water Shortage Emergency for six million customers, cutting watering to one day a week. This does not affect SCV Water customers. Those affected customers are served by a higher proportion of imported state water, which has been drastically impacted by three consecutive years of drought conditions.
In a statement from SCV Water it was reported that the SCV also relies on imported state water for a portion of its supply, “but in addition has local groundwater and banked water supply stored underground in Kern County in wet years. Still, as the drought enters its third year, we are also asking our customers to conserve so we will have flexibility to meet demand should the drought continue. Every drop saved this year is one we can use next year.”
SCV Water provides water service to approximately 75,000 business and residential customers in the SCV. It was formed on Jan. 1, 2018, when local water suppliers combined into one integrated, regional water provider. More information can be found at Your SCV Water.
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9 Comments
How about requiring developers to limit the number of homes built by 20, 30, or 50%, and allow existing homeowners who have been paying exorbitant property taxes here for decades to continue to water our lawns to maintain property values and quality of life, as opposed to being punished so that tens of thousands of new homes can be built and supply them with our water?
We need to do yhe same for all parks and golf courses
What happens to those who have back yard pools where 500 to 1000 gallons of water has to be replenished each month due to evaporation? I don’t see any restrictions on that. In the past, I’ve cut back to a point my yard turns brown in the summer. I don’t like the idea, my water savings is going for someone’s pool.
Stope building homes and businesses in SCV!!
How about pulling permits from developers so they can’t build New housing until we get out of this water shortage.
More house’s, more people, more water consumption!
In addition to the great and well intended water saving suggestions, how do we get people to adhere, educate home owners to learn how to set the sprinkler timers and get gardeners to adhere and set their customer’s Timers. I see sprinklers on full blast at the hottest times of the day,(noon to 4 PM), and on rainy days. water running down the gutters/street because of badly adjusted sprinkler heads etc. etc.
Stop building homes!!!
It is the job of the governor to supply us with water. What has Gov. Newsome done for the people to negotiate for more water for So. Cal? It is time he did his job and stopped blaming us people for trying to save our water and cannot afford his fancy lifestyle. More taxes and fees are not needed. There is plenty of water in the United States go get it and build a pipeline maybe from Alaska. Or, one of the other states that has plenty of water. DO YOUR JOB GOVERNOR.
Stop building homes here in SCV. We don’t need more f’ing people up here!