Water Conservation Lawn Signs Initiative

Your lawn needs as little as 2 cm of water a week to stay healthy. That’s the equivalent of one hour a week of rainfall or watering. It’s okay to let your lawn go brown as the summer progresses. This is a natural response to dry weather. With proper care and maintenance, your lawn will quickly green up again in the fall when heavy dews and rain return.

Visit Metro Vancouver’s Waterwise Lawn Care for an in-depth guide on how to maintain a healthy lawn year-round, or consider lawn alternatives that require less water!

The City is doing its part to conserve water, including using efficient programmable sprinkler systems and alternative ways of watering sports fields and gardens. The following projects have been completed in recent years in order to conserve water at our parks and facilities:

• Replacement of old and inefficient sprinkler heads with modern, efficient heads at every park with irrigation city-wide.
• Installation of drip line irrigation along Harris Road traffic islands and hanging baskets throughout the South Bonson area. This is a much more efficient way to irrigate and is permitted through stages 1-3 of watering restrictions.
• Toro Sentinel Irrigation System that includes advanced flow monitoring, rain sensors, and advanced evapotranspiration calculation models. This allows the City to manage the system day to day and water less on rainy days.
• Replacement of aging infrastructure, maintaining the existing system, and repairing any leaks in the system.  

Water Conservation at Pitt Meadows Athletic Park and other sports fields

The City's designated sports fields are maintained in the summer months for rental groups and watered as permitted under the Metro Vancouver Drinking Water Conservation Plan. These playing fields include Pitt Meadows Athletic Park (PMAP), Edith McDermott Elementary, and Harris Road Park, and they may stay green throughout the summer. Learn more about water conservation practices at the City's sports fields here.