November 1 brings a change for City of Sacramento water customers in California: the city’s winter sprinkler schedule allows watering on one weekend day through February 28. We’d check the controller before the switch and make sure its weekday runs are off.
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What changes on November 1
The City of Sacramento’s winter schedule runs from November 1 to February 28. During that window, sprinkler watering is allowed one day per week, on Saturday or Sunday, at any time of day. The standard schedule does not allow weekday watering.
That makes the controller’s watering-day setting the place to start. Check the days it is set to run rather than assuming a program left from another season will fit the winter rule.
Choose Saturday or Sunday
Set the controller for one weekend day: Saturday or Sunday, not both. Remove any other watering days from the program, including weekdays. The city allows watering at any time of day on the selected winter day, so the key schedule check is whether the controller will run only on that day…