Weekly Watering Recommendation for the week of May 16-22, 2025 :

Water your lawn and flowers: 0.00 inches

If your lawn has deep roots split into two watering days: 0.00 inches/watering

If your lawn has shallow roots split into three watering days: 0.00 inches/watering

Tip of the week: 

After this week’s storm, wait to turn on your sprinkler system until the soil dries. Plant roots need air as well as water.  Give your plants a chance to breathe and watch the weather forecasts before watering your yard. Turn off the yard sprinkler system during a substantial rain and leave your DIY Green Grass Gauge out in the rain to measure how much free water was applied. Turn your sprinklers back on and empty your DIY Green Grass Gauge when the recommendation indicates additional watering is needed. Aerate your lawn with a corer or fork so water applied by sprinklers or natural rainfall will go into the soil reservoir of the grass instead of runoff. Lightly fertilize to give lawn some strength and vigor. Apply bark mulch or garden compost to shrub and perennial beds over the top of soaker hoses or other drip watering methods to hold the water in the soil reservoir for the plants to draw upon over time.

How does this year's watering recommendations stack up to previous years? Click the button below to find out. 

In the spirit of waste reduction, we are no longer providing watering gauges. Over the past few years, we estimate we have distributed over 80,000 gauges in the Eugene community. If you don't have a gauge, you can easily make one from a tuna can.

• Check the recommended watering amount for the week by visiting the website of your local utility, calling the Regional Waterline at 541-341-8510 or watching the Friday weather report on KEZI.
• Place the measuring strip inside a tuna can and place it in your landscape where it will receive an average amount of water from the sprinkler, and then turn on the sprinkler.
• Alternatively, you can use a measuring tape and a permanent marker to measure and mark your measuring device if you don't have a measuring strip. 
• Turn off the sprinkler when the amount in the tuna can matches the recommended amout of water for that week. 

Program Eligibility

• All EWEB water service customers may be eligible; including customers living in mobile home parks with a master meter and all water district customers. 
• Must have adequate backflow protection connected to your sprinkler system.
• EWEB reserves the right to inspect the irrigation system to confirm the sprinkler system has adequate backflow protection.
• Only EPA WaterSense listed controllers/sensors qualify for the rebate.
  • https://lookforwatersense.epa.gov/Product-Search-Results-IrrigationController.html
• Applications must include a copy of an itemized sales receipt that specifies the purchase date, purchase price, manufacturer and model.
• Only one rebate of up to $100 per premise not to exceed the receipt amount.
• The application must be received by EWEB within 90 days of purchase date.

To get started

• Select the right controller with an EPA WaterSense label.
• Verify your irrigation system has an approved backflow prevention assembly.
• Test your irrigation system for leaks or damage.