Stage 2 water
restrictions
apply
Residential customers
Gardens
Can be watered with drinking water using a hand held hose
fitted with a trigger nozzle, bucket or
watering can at any time on any day.
Watering systems can be used
to water gardens between 6am and
8am and 6pm and 8pm on alternate
watering days.
Alternate watering days
Stage 2 water restrictions use the alternate days
system to determine watering days.
This is defined as:
Customers with even street numbers or no numbers may only
water their gardens on dates with even numbers - for example,
November 2.
Customers with odd street numbers may only water their
gardens on dates with odd numbers - for example, November 3.
All customers can water their gardens on the 31st day of any month.
Lawns and grassed areas
Lawns and grassed areas cannot be watered with drinking water.
Newly laid drought resistant turf or warm season grasses can
be watered for 28 days using a hand held hose fitted with a
trigger nozzle from the date of applying for an exemption.
Pools or spas
Pools and spas may
be filled or topped
up with drinking
water by a hand
held hose fitted
with a trigger
nozzle, watering
can or bucket
between 6am and 8am
and 6pm and 8pm on alternate watering days or with an
automatic top-up system or in accordance with a Barwon Water
approved Water Use Plan.
Breaches to Stage 2 water
restrictions will incur fines
Cars, boats and other vehicles
Vehicles can be cleaned using a high pressure hose, a
commercial car wash, or a watering can or bucket filled directly
from a tap. Boat motors can be flushed using a container filled
by a hand held hose or a flushing device connected to a hose.
Hard surfaces/paved areas
Must not be cleaned with drinking water unless required
because of an accident, fire, health or safety hazard or other
emergency. Please notify Barwon Water should you require
to do this.
Building façade and windows
Can be cleaned using a bucket
filled directly from a tap.
Fountains or
water features
Can be operated if
water is recirculated,
but must not be filled
or topped up with
drinking water.
Ponds or lakes
An existing pond or lake cannot be filled or topped up with
drinking water unless it sustains aquatic fauna and/or bird life,
and then only with Barwon Water approval. New ponds or lakes
must not be filled with drinking water.
Water toys
Toys operated by running
drinking water supplied through
a hose must not be used.
Public customers
Public lawns
Must not be watered with drinking water at any time.
Public gardens
Can be watered using a hand held hose fitted with a trigger
nozzle, watering cans or bucket at any time, on any day.
Watering systems can only be used to water gardens between
6am and 8am and 6pm and 8pm on alternate watering days.
Sportsgrounds
Particular playing surfaces can be watered with a hand held
hose fitted with a trigger nozzle, bucket or watering can
at any time on any day.
Particular playing surfaces can only be watered using a
watering system between 6am and 8am and 6pm and 8pm on
alternate watering days.
Any general playing surfaces must not be watered with
drinking water without a Barwon Water approved Water
Use Plan.
What is a particular playing surface?
Particular playing surfaces include turf wickets, golf tees
and greens, lawn tennis courts and bowling greens.
For a complete list of surfaces and their definitions, please
visit our website.
Ponds or lakes
An existing pond or lake cannot be filled or topped up with
drinking water unless it sustains aquatic fauna and/or bird life,
and then only with Barwon Water approval. New ponds or lakes
must not be filled with drinking water.
Fountains or water features
Can be operated if water is recirculated, but must not be filled
or topped up with drinking water.
Municipal pool or spa
May be filled or topped up using a hand held hose fitted with a
trigger nozzle or automatic top-up system with drinking water or
in accordance with a Barwon Water approved Water Use Plan.
Rural customers
Dams or tanks
May be filled or
topped up for
domestic purposes,
fire fighting, public
health or stock
with the written
permission of
Barwon Water.
Commercial customers
Commercial lawns
Must not be watered with drinking water at any time.
Commercial gardens
Can be watered with drinking water using a hand held hose
fitted with a trigger nozzle, bucket or watering can at any
time on any day.
Watering systems can be used to water gardens between
6am and 8am and 6pm and 8pm.
Commercial market gardens or plant nurseries
Can be watered with drinking water using a hand held hose
fitted with a trigger nozzle, bucket or watering can at any time
on any day.
Commercial car washes
Can operate if they use no more than 100 litres of drinking
water for every vehicle washed (car wash must have been
built prior to July 1, 2012) or if they use less than 70 litres of
drinking water for every vehicle washed (car wash must have
been built on or after July 1, 2012) or in accordance
with a Barwon Water
approved Water Use
Plan.
Motor vehicle
dealers
Vehicles may only be
cleaned on alternate
watering days using a high pressure water cleaning device, a
commercial car wash, a watering can or bucket filled directly
from a tap or in accordance with a Barwon Water approved
Water Use Plan.
Mobile spas
Mobile spas may be filled with drinking water in accordance
with a Barwon Water approved Water Use Plan.
Water tankers
May be filled or topped
up only if the tanker is
supplying water to be
used inside a dwelling,
or for fire fighting, stock
watering, construction,
dust suppression or other
public health purposes.
Food transport
vehicles
The interior can only be
cleaned using a high
pressure water cleaning
device or hand held hose
fitted with a trigger
nozzle if cleaning is
necessary to ensure
public safety.
Specific restrictions also apply to:
• Dust suppression
•Construction
• Animal husbandry
• Poultry farms
For further details about water restrictions,
definitions, exemptions and Water Use Plans,
please call Barwon Water on 1300 656 007 or visit
www.barwonwater.vic.gov.au
Barwon Water
61-67 Ryrie Street,
Geelong Victoria 3220
1300 656 007
www.barwonwater.vic.gov.au
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