My neighbors water their driveway (Cary: home, live, restaurants)

[muse1110]

They leave one of those fan type sprinklers on the driveway and it sways back and forth, watering the drive. Not the grass, not plants, just cement...running off into the street.

This has to be wrong. Should I report it? Or is that being a cow and I should mind my own home and life?

Thanks!

[JohnE1000]

I think you should talk to him. Maybe he came from somewhere else and doesn't know the rules here.

[muse1110]

Okay. Maybe they did come from somewhere else, thought no one has moved into that home in the time we've lived here.

The Cary watering guides came in the post yesterday. Maybe that will help them!

[playnice]

How/what do you say to someone that waters their driveway?!?!

[citydweller]

You could discreetly print/copy the regs and place on his door.

[Grass Is Greener]

Well it's unlikely your neighbor is watering the driveway intentionally so give them the benefit of a doubt (the sprinkler may have been accidentally dislodged/bumped/etc) and leave him a note saying that something may have happened with his sprinkler placement and he should check it.

[muse1110]

Maybe I will do that (copy the regs). Or just keep the paper copy for me that came in the post and give them the plastic (ugh, more plastics for the environmental estrogens wrecking so much!!) hanging card.

Maybe I should hang the card on the tap myself.

[OmegaBaby]

Originally Posted by JohnE1000

I think you should talk to him. Maybe he came from somewhere else and doesn't know the rules here.

I've been here since 2001, and I didn't know there were rules either (other than what days you were allowed to water). So I looked it up. Apparently, you're not allowed to use sprinklers between 10am and Midnight. And restaurants aren't allowed to serve water unless you ask.

http://www.raleighnc.gov/portal/serv...nservation.pdf

Oh...and you're not allowed to water driveways either!

[OmegaBaby]

I think the 'droughts' in North Carolina tend to be overblown. This state gets much of its rainfall from tropical storms and hurricanes. and these dump large amounts of rain in short periods of time. This skews the 'average' upward. So if we don't get any tropical systems, but we have otherwise normal rainfall, we're still always 'below average'. So what you tend to see is...
drought...drought...drought...HURRICANE!....drough t...drought...drought...HURRICANE!....
...and it all averages out even though most of the time we're in a drought.

[jln69]

If you see your neighbor, you can just politely tell him that you are looking out for him and that Cary does fine for watering concrete and you would hate to see him receive a fine. That way it looks like you are looking out for you neighbor.

My neighbors have been fined by town of Cary when the water from their sprinkers gets on the pavement by accident.