The kids are no doubt flipping in excitement over word that pools will indeed be open this summer.
Recently, the Smyrna City Council adopted the Georgia Environmental Protection Division’s new guidelines regarding drought restrictions, which will become effective April 1. The city has been under a Level 4 Drought with all outdoor watering prohibited.
Pools in Smyrna will be open this summer. The exemption applies to all personal and neighborhood pools as well as Smyrna’s two pools, the outdoor pool at Tolleson Park and an indoor one at the Senior Aquatic center on Church Street.
Additionally, hand watering of existing landscape can be done between midnight and 10 a.m. for 25 minutes on an odd-even schedule. Odd-numbered addresses can water Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday. Even-numbered addresses may water Monday, Wednesday and Saturday. No watering is allowed on Friday. Hand watering, of course, means not sprinkler systems are permitted.
City of Smyrna residents must complete an Outdoor Water Use Registration Program to water professionally installed new landscape. Completion of the program would allow them to water the new landscape for a longer period of time. New, professionally installed landscape can be watered up to three days per week, between midnight and 10 a.m. with no time limit for up to 10 weeks.
The Outdoor Water Use program will be available online beginning March 15 at www.urbanagcouncil.com.
The Cobb County Board of Commissioners approved similar guideline on February 26th, which would impact those residents in Smyrna Vinings not in the city of Smyrna. Cobb County’s guidelines do vary slightly including hand watering only being done from 4 a.m. to 9 a.m. And the county requires residents to apply for a County Landscape Exemption form before watering newly installed landscape.
Be sure to check out Cobb County’s watering guidelines and the Smyrna watering guidelines to learn more.
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