Needles Municipal Code Art. 22 XI Prohibited Service Uses

Customer shall not use water service for the following uses or activities. This prohibition is necessary to prevent water shortages. No Customer shall cause or permit water furnished to any property to run or to escape from any hose, pipe, valve, faucet, sprinkler or irrigation device, onto a sidewalk, street, gutter or to otherwise escape from the property, if such running or escaping can reasonably be prevented.

crops, gardens and trees, including agricultural irrigation, in a manner or to an extent which allows substantial amounts of excess water to run off the area being watered, shall not be permitted. Minimum amount of run off which is a natural consequence of conservative watering, either by hand or mechanical sprinkler facilities, is permitted so long as such run off is not excessive.

and 9:00 a.m.

during the months of April through September. If a hand-held hose or drip irrigation system is used watering may be done at any time. City parks and the City golf course shall be exempt from this section, except these City facilities shall be expected to comply with these requirements, unless, because of some unforeseen necessity or for the benefit of public use watering is required. An exemption shall also be granted for discharge water from existing water-cooled air conditioners or coolers providing the discharge is to lawn or landscape areas and is not permitted to drain to streets.

surfaces, shall be limited to five minutes twice a month for residential and nonresidential property shall be limited to five minutes per 500 square feet twice monthly. Flammable or other similar dangerous substances may be washed from said areas by direct hose flushing to remove immediate fire or sanitation hazards. Flammable or other similar dangerous substances shall not be washed into any wastewater collection system. In addition, public food service businesses may wash down surfaces as necessary to alleviate health, safety and sanitation hazards.

Automobiles shall be

washed using a bucket during the washing process. A hose and nozzle which shuts off automatically when released shall be used for a quick rinse. Automobiles may not be washed on public streets.