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Irrigation Pump Repair in Winter Garden, Florida

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An irrigation pump in Winter Garden is worth more than it looks, because the supply that replaced it has a published expiry.

Winter Garden makes some of the reclaimed water that irrigates the city and buys a great deal more of it from Orange County, and the City's own planning documents say it will not be able to keep buying it after 2028. Between now and then, the City says its plant rebuild means reclaimed may occasionally be unavailable without advance notice. On properties that went over to reclaimed, the well that would have covered that gap was permanently disconnected, because the City's ordinance required it.

The detail

Three Water Supplies, and the City Controls Less of Them Than it Looks

The City of Winter Garden runs its own drinking water utility. Its 2025 water quality report describes six deep wells drawing from the Floridan Aquifer, treated by aeration and disinfection with sodium hypochlorite, and the City's comprehensive planning documents record three water treatment plants with a combined permitted capacity of 13.02 million gallons a day. That part of the picture is entirely under the City's control.

Reclaimed water is a split picture. The City produces reclaimed water at its own wastewater treatment facility, and its code defines reclaimed water as effluent from city-owned and operated plants. It also buys a large volume: its planning documents record an average purchase of 2.2 million gallons a day from Orange County's Water Conserv II system in 2020, serving mainly the northwest part of the service area. The bought-in half is the half with a problem attached.

The third supply is the one this page is really about: private irrigation wells. They are legal in Winter Garden; they are regulated by the City itself as well as by the water management district, and a property that is connected to reclaimed water was required to disconnect its well for good. Which of the three a particular address is on is the first thing to establish, and it is often not what the homeowner believes.

One check comes before all three. A Winter Garden mailing address and a Winter Garden utility connection are two different things, and a great deal of what gets called Winter Garden is served by Orange County Utilities instead, Horizon West and the Hamlin area especially. If your water bill is not from the City, the code sections and the supply problem on this page do not apply to you. Your bill settles that in about five seconds.

The detail

What the City Has Published About its own Reclaimed Supply

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Two City documents, read together, describe a supply under pressure from both ends. Neither is obscure, and neither is hard to check.

The first is the City's own comprehensive planning analysis. It states that under the Wekiwa and Rock Springs Basin Management Action Plan, the land application of wastewater effluent that has not been treated to advanced wastewater treatment standards is prohibited within the basin; that Conserv II reclaimed water is not treated to those standards and so does not meet the total maximum daily load requirements; that Orange County has indicated it does not intend to upgrade that treatment process; and that consequently the City will no longer be able to use Conserv II reclaimed water after 2028. The same document records that the City developed a Reclaimed Water Facility Plan in 2022 to evaluate options and phase out its reliance on Conserv II, and anticipates a shortfall without supplemental sources.

The second is the City's live customer notice about its wastewater plant. The plant is undergoing a major renovation and expansion; construction is expected to continue through December 2028, and during that period, in the City's own words, reclaimed water may occasionally be unavailable without advance notice. The City's published answer for customers during an interruption is to connect a hose to the bib on the side of the house and move a sprinkler around the yard, on the assigned watering day, observing the ban between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., and it notes that using potable water this way may increase the water bill.

That is a city telling its customers, accurately and in public, that the irrigation supply on which a large part of it depends is both interruptible now and finite later. It is not a criticism of Winter Garden to say so; the City published both of those facts itself. But it changes what a property owner here should be asking about their irrigation system, and it is the reason the next section matters.

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Why the Ordinance is the Part Most People Miss

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Section 78-268 required the well to be disconnected permanently

The City's code provides that no person shall install a new irrigation well to serve property where reclaimed water distribution facilities are available, and that no person shall use potable water for irrigation through a new or existing lawn meter on such property. It then goes further than that. Existing private irrigation systems that connect to the reclaimed system and are presently served by an on-site well or other water source shall disconnect the well or other water source permanently, and dual or temporary connections of wells to irrigation systems served by reclaimed water are not permitted. So for a property that converted, the fallback was not left idle. It was required to be cut off for good.

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There is a surface water exception, and it is discretionary

The same section allows dual or temporary connections to natural surface waters or artificially created surface impoundments, as permitted by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection, when declared exempt by the utilities director. The code sets out what the director weighs: whether citywide reuse irrigation utilization is high, whether such irrigation would not be detrimental to the body of water, and whether the property has the physical means to take water from the body of water using facilities that can be isolated from other piping so as not to pose cross-connection problems. In a city ringed by Lake Apopka, Johns Lake and Lake Roberts, that is a real route for some properties and a dead end for others, and the deciding office is named in the code.

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A new well here needs a City permit as well as a District one

Winter Garden's code states that privately owned wells may be drilled and used within the corporate limits only for lawn sprinkling, irrigation, operation of air conditioning units, filling of swimming pools or similar uses, and not for human consumption. It then makes it unlawful to bore, dig or drill such a well without an application and a permit from the city building official, with the application showing the proposed size, the anticipated depth and the exact location. That is a municipal layer on top of the water management district's well construction permit, and it catches people out.

The detail

When the Reclaimed Stops Mid-season, in Order

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The City says this can happen without notice until the plant work finishes. Here is the sequence that saves a landscape while keeping you within the rules.

Confirm it is the supply and not your equipment. A reclaimed outage and a failed pump look identical at the sprinkler head. If your system draws from a reclaimed meter, check whether neighbors on the same street have pressure before anyone is called out. If it is only your property, it is your equipment, and that is our work.

Fall back the way the City's own guidance says to. That guidance during an interruption is a hose and movable sprinkler from the house bib, still on your assigned watering day and still nothing between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. What is not available is quietly repiping the irrigation system onto the potable supply or reopening a disconnected well. Section 78-268 prohibits the lawn meter route on reclaimed-served property, and the City's cross connection rules prohibit joining the two systems at all.

Decide whether you want a permanent answer well before 2028. If your property has a surface water body it could lawfully draw from, the director's exemption route in Section 78-268 exists and is worth asking about now, with time in hand. If you are considering a new irrigation well, the building official's permit is the first call, and availability of reclaimed at your address is the first question. We can look at what the plumbing and the pump would actually need either way.

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What we Work on in Winter Garden

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Pumps that have been run dry, and the damage that follows

An irrigation pump on an intermittent supply takes a particular kind of punishment. A motor that keeps starting against no water overheats its seals, a pressure switch that keeps cycling wears out early, and a tank that has lost its charge turns a supply outage into a hardware failure. Those are the faults we see most on properties that have been through a reclaimed interruption, and all of them are repairable, and all are easier to put right before the season ends than after.

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Wells that have been standing idle

A well that was disconnected under Section 78-268, or simply left when a property went over to reclaimed, does not come back into service by being switched on. The City's code deems a well abandoned if it is not in use, is in a state of disrepair, or is a potential source of groundwater contamination, and if its existence is detrimental to the city's water resources. That last clause is part of the test, and an idle well does not automatically meet it. Where abandonment is required, the code puts it at the property owner's expense, and it also says that in certain circumstances a well may not need to be abandoned at all, with that determination coordinated through the water management district. Before anyone reconnects anything, that is the question to settle.

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What we do not take on

We do not drill new wells, perform well screening, or install new constant-pressure or variable-frequency drive systems, though we service existing ones. Reverse osmosis and solar pumping are outside our scope. The City permit and the director's exemption are yours to obtain; we can tell you which office holds each one.

Irrigation Pump Repair FAQ

Winter Garden Irrigation Questions

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01Is the 2028 date certain?

It is the City's own published planning position, not a court order, and it rests on two things that could each move: whether Orange County ever upgrades the Conserv II treatment process, which the City records it does not intend to, and what supplemental sources the City's own Reclaimed Water Facility Plan produces. Treat it as what the City currently expects and plans around. Ask the City's utilities department for the current position before making a decision that turns on the date.

02My reclaimed pressure keeps dropping. Is my pump failing?

It might be, and it might be the plant work. The City has said reclaimed may occasionally be unavailable without advance notice while construction continues through December 2028. The quick test is whether the street has pressure when you do not. If the whole street is down, it is the supply; if it is only you, something on your property is the cause, and that is worth diagnosing.

03Can I just put the old well back into service when reclaimed is off?

Not on a property served by reclaimed. The code requires that an existing well serving a system that connects to reclaimed be disconnected permanently, and it prohibits dual or temporary connections of wells to reclaimed-served irrigation systems. Separately, the City's cross-connection rules make it unlawful to connect a private supply to the City's pipes at all and require a dual system of pipes with no interconnection where a property has both. A temporary reconnection is easy to do and unpleasant to have found.

04Am I allowed a private irrigation well in Winter Garden at all?

Yes, subject to three conditions that catch people out. The code permits private wells inside the city only for lawn sprinkling, irrigation, air conditioning units, pool filling and similar uses, and not for human consumption. And drilling one requires an application and a permit from the city building official showing the proposed size, anticipated depth and exact location. On top of that, Section 78-268 bars a new irrigation well where reclaimed distribution facilities are available, so whether reclaimed reaches your address is the threshold question.

05How do I know whether reclaimed is 'available' at my address?

The code defines it, and the definition is narrower than most people assume. Available means contiguous to or within 100 feet of any property line for one class of unit, or within 1,000 feet for others. The code also states explicitly that the presence of a reclaimed water main adjacent to or near the premises does not necessarily mean service is available at that location, and that no taps are made to transmission mains without the director's approval. A main in your street is not the answer. The utilities department is.

06Is Winter Garden under the one-day-a-week drought restrictions?

No. As of September 2026, the St. Johns River Water Management District's Phase III order covers the District portion of several counties, and Orange County is not among them. Winter Garden is on the ordinary schedule, which is a different position from the Lake County cities we also serve. The City codifies that schedule in its own ordinance, so read the City's version; it is the one that binds you.

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