Austin Water and SAWS stage rules are not suggestions, and they are not the same document. A clock that watered legally in March can be illegal in August. Irrigation companies that ignore this are why HOAs and cities both send letters.
Read your utility, not a Facebook group
Austin, San Antonio, and Georgetown publish stages. Your HOA may be stricter.
We set programs to the rule you are under the day we are there, and we tell you seasonal adjust is your job when the stage changes.
Hardware that makes restrictions survivable
Matched nozzles, no misting, drip on beds, cycle-and-soak on clay. Restrictions plus waste is how lawns die in one month.
Tune-ups are how you keep throw efficiency when you cannot add days.
Smart controllers help only if you use them
A Wi-Fi clock with the wrong ZIP and stacked rain skips will brown a lawn under a restriction and still get you a fine if it waters on a banned day.
Keep reading (internal links)
Related: Leaking Sprinkler Head, Valve Repairs in Houston, TX, Fall Sprinkler Adjustments in Texas. Services: all services. Areas: service areas. Cities in this piece: Austin, San Antonio, Georgetown.
Parent service page: Timer & Controller Repairs.
Questions we get on this
Will you guarantee no tickets?
We set a legal program for the rules you show us. We cannot control who hits manual start on Saturday at noon.
How we actually run this job
On the truck this is still isolation before dirt, a written option before extra parts, and a legal watering window after the hardware works. Texas clay, caliche, and city mains punish skipped steps. If a national checklist contradicts your utility, the utility wins.
If you are comparing cities, use the local page rather than this article alone — soil and freeze risk change at the county line. The service menu is here and the area list is here.
Need it fixed, not diagnosed over email? Call 888-427-5022 or use the contact page.
Texas context we will not skip
Gulf clay, Blackland prairie, and Edwards rock do not share a repair script. A wet spot in Houston is not a freeze crack in Dallas, and a SAWS stage day is not a MUD watering window in Katy. We write those constraints because they change the parts on the truck and the program we leave on the clock.
If this article is about a part, still run isolation before you buy a case of that part. If it is about a city, still open the valve box before you trench the first damp patch. If it is about a clock, still measure the solenoid. That order is the whole business.
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