{"id":8891,"date":"2012-04-18T15:57:01","date_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/?p=8891"},"modified":"2012-04-18T15:57:01","modified_gmt":"2012-04-18T20:57:01","slug":"farewell-st-augustine-dallas-enacts-permanent-water-restrictions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/04\/18\/farewell-st-augustine-dallas-enacts-permanent-water-restrictions\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell, St. Augustine: Dallas Enacts Permanent Water Restrictions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_8894\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Watering in Dallas will now be limited to twice a week. Permanently. \" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/96234550.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8894\" title=\"Perth On Target For Worst Drought Ever Recorded\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/96234550-300x189.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/96234550-300x189.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/files\/2012\/04\/96234550.jpg 594w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Photo by Paul Kane\/Getty Images<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Watering in Dallas will now be limited to twice a week. Permanently.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you live in Dallas, you may want to reconsider that thirsty St. Augustine grass on your lawn, because starting Monday, you&#8217;ll only be able to water your lawn twice a week. Permanently.<\/p>\n<p>Today the Dallas City Council <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wfaa.com\/news\/local\/Dallas-Council-approves-plan-that-restricts-lawn-watering-to-two-days-147961195.html\">voted in permanent water\u00a0restrictions\u00a0<\/a>for the city, in a move that Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings (as well as the mayors of Fort Worth, Arlington and Irving) <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/04\/13\/texas-mayors-advocate-permanent-water-restrictions\/\">asked for recently<\/a>. Any hose-end sprinklers or automatic systems can only be used twice a week, regardless of drought conditions. The city says you can still water at any time by hand or with a soaker hose to protect home foundations.<\/p>\n<p>You can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dallascityhall.com\/council_briefings\/briefings0412\/WaterConservation_041812.pdf\">read the full details of the proposal passed today here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Previously: <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/2012\/04\/13\/texas-mayors-advocate-permanent-water-restrictions\/\">Texas Mayors Want Permanent Water Restrictions<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you live in Dallas, you may want to reconsider that thirsty St. Augustine grass on your lawn, because starting Monday, you&#8217;ll only be able to water your lawn twice a week. Permanently. Today the Dallas City Council voted in permanent water\u00a0restrictions\u00a0for the city, in a move that Dallas Mayor Mike Rawlings (as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":8894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[60],"tags":[61,140,85],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8897,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8891\/revisions\/8897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/texas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}