What Stage II Water Restrictions Mean For Victoria Residents

Thanks to the rainfall last week, the City of Victoria is lifting some of its drought restrictions, but residents must continue to conserve water by limiting some types of nonessential water usage to the cooler times of day.

What must residents do to conserve water during Stage II?

Under Stage II of the plan, residents are no longer required to follow many of the Stage III restrictions, such as the limitation of watering to designated days. However, residents still must limit the following activities to the hours of 6-10 a.m. and 8 p.m.-midnight:

Those activities include, using an automatic lawn sprinkler or hose-end sprinkler, filling pools, and washing vehicles. Residents can water their lawns with hoses at any time of day, as long as the hose has a positive shut-off nozzle.

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How long will Victoria be in Stage II?

According to the City of Victoria, city officials will terminate Stage II restrictions and re-enter Stage One when the flow of the Guadalupe River rises above its "low flow” threshold for 14 consecutive days and when Public Works determines that the City’s water intake can meet demand without the restrictions. Thanks to the recent rain, the river has started to rise.

The “low flow” threshold is defined by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and varies from month to month.

Under Stage 1, all mandatory restrictions will be lifted, and residents will be asked to practice voluntary water conservation.