We appreciate the excellent cooperation our citizens have given us in the past in adhering to the Alternate Day Lawn Watering program.  

Section 34-24 Alternate day lawn watering; water supply emergencies, (a),

"It shall be unlawful for any person to utilize water from the City of Novi Water Supply System for the watering of lawns or landscaping except on an alternate day basis.  An alternate day basis of watering permits the watering of lawns and landscaping on even-numbered days for properties with an even-numbered address and on odd-numbered days for property with an odd-numbered street address".

To determine if an address is even or odd numbered refer to the last number in the street address.  Even-numbered addresses end with a 0, 2, 4, 6, or 8 and odd-numbered addresses end with a 1, 3, 5, 7, or 9.  Why do we have the alternate day lawn watering program?  There are two reasons:

1.  The City of Novi is a wholesale customer of the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD).  Two of the major factors that DWSD uses to establish our wholesale water rate is Peak Day and Peak Hour purchases.  If we adhere to the alternate day water cycle we can level out our Peak Day and Peak Hour factors, which result in lower wholesale water rates.

2.  During the high demand periods of May through September we routinely experience low system pressures in some sections of the city.  The Alternate Day Lawn Watering program helps us ensure that we can provide water pressure to meet the domestic and fire flow requirements of all of our customers.