Active Playing Surface Guidelines for Non-turf Sports

This guideline applies to non-turf sporting activities that use town water, not for irrigation, but for safety or other reasons (e.g. dust suppression, track maintenance and synthetic surfaces).

These activities referred to, under the definition of an active playing surface include, but are not limited to sports such as BMX, motorcycling, equestrian and pony clubs, as well as hockey fields using synthetic surfaces. The preparation and maintenance of turf cricket wickets and the irrigation of golf greens and tees, lawn bowls rinks, and croquet courts is also included in this category.

Requirements

Water from the reticulated (town) supply system is not permitted to be used on Non-turf or other playing surfaces except where the following conditions apply:

• the active playing surface has been registered with council
• if directed, a council approved sign is displayed on the premises
• a water meter has been installed to specifically measure and monitor the amount of town water used on the playing surface; and
• a weekly log book of town water consumption is kept and is available for inspection upon request.

Watering Times

In addition to these requirements, specific watering times and other restrictions apply to the Non-turf and Other Sports category as set out below:

Cricket wicket blocks

Any day between 4:00pm and 10:00am AND for a maximum of 6 hours per week per turf wicket block

Golf

Any day between 8:00pm and 5:00am AND for a maximum of 9 hours per week

Lawn bowls, croquet

Tuesday to Sunday between 4pm and 10am AND for a maximum of 2 hours per surface per week WITH an additional one hour per fortnight using a hand held hose with trigger nozzle, or efficient irrigation system to water in chemicals. 

Refer to Related documents below for the relevant Registration form, Guide to Registration and Log book