{"id":142561,"date":"2026-02-03T22:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142561\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T22:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T22:47:14","slug":"one-day-a-week-watering-schedule-starts-sunday-in-lee-county-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/142561\/","title":{"rendered":"One day-a-week watering schedule starts Sunday in Lee County | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in unincorporated Lee County are reminded of the one-day-a-week watering schedule starting Feb. 1 through May to conserve water and protect the aquifer.<\/p>\n<p>Odd-numbered addresses may water on Saturdays and even-numbered addresses on Sundays, with no watering allowed between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Lee Board of County Commissioners revised the water conservation ordinance in 2024 due to drought-like conditions from the 2025 rainy season. Declining water levels in aquifers have prompted Lee County to work with the South Florida Water Management District to raise awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Residents are urged to follow local ordinances restricting lawn irrigation, which can account for 50% of household water use. Violating these rules can lead to warnings and fines, though the focus remains on education.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"LC watering 1 day - 1\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>                                    Courtesy<br \/>\nLee County Government<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents in unincorporated Lee County are reminded of the one-day-a-week watering schedule starting Feb. 1 through May to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,3837,325],"class_list":{"0":"post-142561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cape-coral","8":"tag-cape-coral","9":"tag-cape-coral-headlines","10":"tag-cape-coral-news","11":"tag-collaborator_gen_stories","12":"tag-lee"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}