Denver Water’s summer watering rules are in effect May 1 to Oct. 1. There are no assigned watering days, but never water more than three days a week. Lawn watering is not allowed between 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. to prevent losing water to evaporation.
Remember that each lawn is different, depending on the soil, amount of sunlight it receives and other landscaping factors. Use this chart as a guideline, but experiment with your lawn. Try watering your lawn in cycles — five minutes on, five minutes off — to allow water to penetrate the soil and create a healthier lawn with less water. And try taking two minutes off the watering times for each zone. If that works and your lawn stays green, take off another two minutes.
If all of Denver Water’s customers took two minutes off their watering times, we would save nearly one billion gallons of water each year.
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