Summer Demand Peak: Ridgewood Water Reminds Residents of Mandatory Two-Day Lawn Watering Schedule
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, As the summer heat rolls into North Jersey, Ridgewood Water is issuing an important reminder to all consumers: the mandatory two-day lawn watering schedule is officially in effect.
This policy applies directly to all properties across the four municipal communities served by the utility: Glen Rock, Midland Park, Ridgewood, and Wyckoff.
To avoid potential compliance penalties and protect the regional water infrastructure, residents are urged to review their automated lawn systems immediately.
Action Required: Update Your Irrigation Systems Now
Local homeowners are advised to contact their professional irrigation or landscaping company right away to ensure automated systems are strictly programmed to reflect the approved two-day schedule.
Pro-Tip for Homeowners: Don’t rely solely on your landscaper. Take a few minutes to learn how to manually operate and program your own digital sprinkler clock. Irrigation companies face high call volumes during peak season, and knowing how to adjust your system yourself ensures you remain compliant if weather conditions shift.
The Science Behind “Water Demand Management”
While a restricted schedule might initially feel like strict rationing, Ridgewood Water frames this initiative as vital Water Demand Management.
During peak summer months, regional water usage routinely triples, driven almost entirely by automated residential lawn irrigation. If every neighborhood watered their lawns simultaneously, the localized system pressure would drop to dangerously low levels. This drop poses a major risk to indoor plumbing and—more critically—compromises emergency fire hydrant services when every second counts.
By strictly adhering to your assigned two-day watering window, you actively contribute to three major community and environmental benefits:
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Securing Public Safety: Maintains consistent, reliable water pressure across the grid for domestic use and emergency services.
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Environmental Preservation: Protects vulnerable local aquifers from the long-term damage of over-pumping.
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Healthier Lawns: Less frequent, deeper watering actually encourages grass to grow deeper root systems, creating a more naturally drought-resistant lawn.
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Here we go again with the Aqua Commie Sprinkler Force telling the taxpaying home owner moral backbone of this damn town when and how they can feed their damn grass!!! This isn’t Pakistan. This is the garden state, not the splotchy brown dead lawn state. We’re supposed to intentionally starve our grass? You dumb liberals are OK with that?
How about some enforcement?
I comply and my lawn is brown
Manual sprinklers should be allowed every day. We water ‘as needed’ vs ‘automatic
Can you idiots not read? It is about the water pressure. Morons.
Fakes News ate their brains a long time ago.
I getting a rainwater capture system
And you be going straight to jail
Who waters the NOT public garden at Habernickel. This is a teaching garden for a privately owned business! Under the pretense that it is a public garden yet it’s under lock and key by the owner, hmmmm who pays this water bill? And it this business that the tax payers dollars are supporting under water restrictions too? And is the water toxic like ours is? I would t eat out of any garden in Ridgewood