PUBLIC
SERVICE
ANNOUNCEMENT

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 26, 2000

PSA—ALTERNATE DAY WATERING

Year-round alternate day outdoor watering begins on May 1 for residents and businesses that use water from the Cary-Apex Water Treatment Plant in Cary, RDU, and the Wake County portion of RTP. Under the new law, outdoor watering of grass, gardens, bushes, and other landscape materials is limited to three days a week depending on the property’s street address. Water outdoors those properties with odd number street addresses only on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. Even number addresses may water outdoors only on Wednesdays, Fridays, and Sundays. NO OUTDOOR WATERING IS ALLOWED ON MONDAYS. The new law includes outdoor hand watering as well as outdoor automated watering with irrigation systems and sprinklers. The law does not affect outdoor washing of any kind.

Details: 469-4090 or www.townofcary.org.