What’s Happening? Effective March 1, 2025, Outdoor Watering Goes to One Day Per Week.
Due to the prolonged dry weather conditions and the rapidly decreasing water levels in Lake Travis, effective March 31, 2025, the City of Cedar Park will enter Stage 3 of the Drought Contingency Plan. This means outdoor watering will be limited to one day per week.
Moving to Stage 3 is implemented when the combined storage of Lakes Travis and Buchanan is below 1.1 million acre-feet and the prior three months of inflows are less than the 25th percentile of historic inflows for that three-month period. In Stage 3, the Lower Colorado River Authority (LCRA), manager of the water supply, calls for a 20% reduction in overall water consumption.
Stage 3 means a new, mandatory, one-designated day-per-week outdoor watering schedule. For more details on the new watering schedule, FAQs, and Water Conservation Measures, please visit www.waterthriftycedarpark.org.
How Can You Help? Stage 3 information will be distributed through the City website, the water conservation website www.waterthriftycedarpark.org.; the e-newsletter, social media posts, ads in Community Impact, bandit signs in neighborhoods, and a direct mail postcard.
- Share the City’s attached flyer, social media posts, and links to FAQs through customer contact lists
- If you manage common area properties, ask landscaping companies to adjust the irrigation systems to outdoor water on Tuesdays before 10:00 a.m. or after 7:00 p.m.
- Encourage your residents/homeowners to reprogram their residential irrigation systems to their new one-day-per-week outdoor watering schedule now (videos for how to reprogram irrigation systems are online at www.waterthriftycedarpark.org).
- Add Stage 3 water conservation messages to your neighborhood newsletters
- Need more info? Contact us at media@cedarparktexas.gov.
Commercial Outdoor Watering Schedule: All commercial addresses (including apartments and HOA-owned properties) water on Tuesday No one may water outdoors on a Monday or Friday. This will allow for recovery and maintenance of the City of Cedar Park’s Water Utility.
Though Stage 3 Water Conservation measures are now in effect, the City of Cedar Park will allow time for customers to adjust their automatic irrigation systems and reduce their water usage prior to enforcement. The City of Cedar Park will start enforcing Stage 3 Water Conservation Measures on March 31, 2025.
Need to Know How to Reprogram Your Irrigation system? See video here: https://waterthriftycedarpark.org/rebates-resources-stage-3/
Other News Temporary Water Conservation Rate Adjustment
As part of the Stage 3 Water Conservation Measures, a temporary water conservation rate adjustment will be implemented in March and reflected in customer’s utility bills starting in mid-May.
The temporary water conservation rate adjustment also helps maintain adequate funding for the water utility to ensure that the City of Cedar Park is able to maintain operations and continue to deliver safe and high quality drinking water to our customers. For more information on our rates, visit https://www.cedarparktexas.gov/Rates.