Lawns Turn Brown Even With Tega Cay SC Revised Water Restrictions May 31st 2008
If you are shopping for a home in the Tega Cay or Fort Mill area right now you will notice lawns looking brown instead of green these days. With higher or I should say HOT summer temperatures and water restrictions that are in place, it is difficult to maintain a bright green lawn.
So you might ask what are the current water restrictions? Here is an update.
Tega Cay’s city council did revise the current stage 3 water restrictions on May 31st. Stage 3 restriction have been in place since October of last year. We were blessed with much needed rain during the spring season so the council reduced the restrictions slightly from the April 21st, 2008 change. We are still in stage 3 water restriction with the following changes:
You are allowed to water lawns with sprinklers or irrigation systems one day a week.
Odd addresses are allowed to water any time on Saturdays
Even addresses are allowed to water anytime on Sundays.
The April 21st update only allowed you to water on the designated day from 12:01am to 9am. The May 31st change allows you to water anytime during your designated day.
Besides the change to the time of watering your lawns 1 day a week, you may now wash vehicles, watercraft, fill pools, and pressure wash structures/driveways on the same designated day of the week. But only one day a week on your designated day.
Residents are allowed to use hand held watering containers and hoses with spray nozzles to water plants, shrubs, flowers, containers, gardens, and lawns any time and any day of the week.
Tega Cay restrictions now match the current York County stage 3 restrictions. Fort Mill water restrictions are similar except the only day to water, wash, or fill is Saturday. Fort Mill did not break out different days for even or odd addresses.
In all jurisdictions, watering, washing, and filing on days other than your assigned day is strictly prohibited. And so is any water run off.
The use of irrigation systems that pump water directly from Lake Wylie are controlled by Duke Energy Lake Management and now are allowed to “pump” water only on Saturdays.
The information above is from the Tega Cay city website, Fort Mill city website, and the York County SC website. Click here for a PDF of the Tega Cay city May 31st amended water restriction.
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June 11th, 2008 at 7:44 am
My lawn is turning brown and I have been religiously watering it on my day. It seems to me that the wrong type of grass was laid in our yards. It should have been bermuda grass (I think that is the name of it). It goes dormant in the winter but comes back every year looking green and lush. I’ve noticed that some people have replaced their lawns with this type of grass. I’m hoping that it catches on.
June 11th, 2008 at 10:11 am
Yep, bermuda thrives in the 80 plus degree heat. The only downfall for bermuda in our area is it goes dormant in lower temperatures. So, while other lawns with fescue look very green for many months in the spring and fall, bermnuda lawns are brown. We seem to need a hybrid mix for our mix of temperatures. Some folks in our area have been using organic fertilizers and soil treatment on their fescue lawns and had some better luck holding on to greener lawns in the hot weather.
Thanks for the comment Ann Marie
June 30th, 2008 at 8:57 am
Are you aware that Thomas Concrete on Flint Hill Road, Fort Mill, SC is running their water sprinklers on a daily basis to water their rock piles so there won’t be so much dust and their cars will stay clean? I have complained to water & sewer, channel 9, york county sheriff’s dept and everyone says it is not their jurisdiction. Water runs constantly from 6:00am to 8:00pm every day. The water literally is running off their rock piles!!
September 18th, 2008 at 10:04 am
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July 14th, 2009 at 10:17 am
Nancy, you are mis-informed.
The stone requires constant water so the rock itself doesn’t suck up water once it is mixed with the other materials to form the concrete.
It has nothing to do with dust or clean cars.