Public Notice

On April 1 - RDN Water Service Areas Move to Stage 1 Restrictions

Customers of the nine RDN Water Service Areas will, as of April 1, be subject to the Stage 1 watering restrictions. This means that sprinkling can only occur between the hours of 7 pm and 7 am, on any day of the week, for any duration. Hand-watering, drip irrigation and micro irrigation can be applied at any time. Vegetable and food gardens are exempt from the restrictions. This is a soft entry-point to the outdoor watering season, which serves as a reminder that the dry months are ahead and planning for efficient irrigation is important.

The nine RDN Water Service Areas are: Nanoose Bay Peninsula, French Creek/Sandpiper, San Pareil, Englishman River Community (River's Edge), Melrose Terrace, Surfside, Decourcey (Pylades), Westurne Heights and Whiskey Creek.

• City of Nanaimo
• City of Parksville
• EPCOR French Creek
• Bowser Waterworks District
• North Cedar Improvement District
• Southwest Extension Waterworks

Other water service areas are not implementing restrictions at this time.

For more information and a map that displays the water service areas in our region including their current watering restrictions, visit www.teamwatersmart.ca.

Between April and October, watering restrictions are an effective tool to ensure water demands for essential household use, fire protection and irrigation purposes can be met. The Regional Watering Restrictions Framework provides a proactive and predictable means of implementing restrictions to guide outdoor water use in the form of four stages:

Stage 1  April and October - consists of night-time lawn watering only, 7 pm to 7 am
Stage 2  May through September - limits use to "even and odd day" watering.
Stage 3  Voluntary reductions on top of Stage 2 (only as required)
Stage 4  Bans non-essential outdoor water use (only as required)

RDN Water Services Department
(250) 390-6560 | rcu [at] rdn.bc.ca (rcu[at]rdn[dot]bc[dot]ca)