Water-Use Restriction Notices

A herbicide or algaecide label restricts what the water can be used for after treatment: no irrigating for thirty days, no drinking for three, no swimming until tomorrow. After a pond or lake visit, OpsVara tells the customer exactly that, per use, as a date — and it tells the applicator the same thing before they leave the site.

When you finish this article, every dosed aquatic product carries its label's restrictions, your office has confirmed them, and a completed visit produces one notice that reads the same in the customer's email, the portal, the treatment certificate and the job page.

Water Bodies accounts only, on Crew and up.

What the Customer Receives

A completed pond or lake visit that logged at least one chemical produces a water-use notice. It lists what was applied, then one line for each use the labels can restrict, in this order:

A dated line names the product that set the wait, for example Watering lawns, gardens and ornamentals: after Monday, October 19 (Fluridone Herbicide). General label notes you entered ("Do not exceed 1 ppm copper in water used for drinking.") print under the uses.

The same block appears in five places, built once at check-out so they can never disagree:

• The visit summary email, as its own "Water-use restrictions" section after the products applied. An office that writes its own intro can also place it with the {{waterUseNotice}} token under SettingsCustomer Notifications; the same token is available on the SMS body, trimmed to fit a text message.
• The customer portal's visit page, under When you can use the water again.
• The treatment certificate PDF, as a "Water-Use Restrictions" section.
• The job page under Jobs, as Water-use notice sent to the customer, with a Copy button.
• The applicator's wrap-up in the visit wizard, as Tell the customer, with Copy on the web and Share on the phone, so they can read it out or hand it over while still on site.

Where the Days Come From

Each product carries its own table under Inventory → the product → Edit Details → Water-use restrictions after application: six rows of Water use · Days · Note (label wording), a General note and a Label reference.

• Days is the number of days after application before that use is allowed. 0 means the label places no restriction on it.
• A blank day means the label does not say, or you have not looked it up. It is never treated as zero: the customer reads not stated on the label; ask your applicator for that use.
• Note is the label's own condition, printed verbatim after the date.
• General note always prints under the product — potable-intake setbacks, drinking-water ceilings.
• Label reference records which label edition or EPA registration number you read the days from.

Products added from the setup catalog arrive with starting values in this table, marked Not confirmed. Those values are starting points from memory of the labels, not verified facts; treat them as a worksheet, not an answer.

The Confirmation Gate

A product's days reach a customer only after your office confirms them. Until then:

• the notice never prints a date from that product;
• if it was applied, the notice ends with Ask your applicator before using the water: <product> — restrictions for these products have not been confirmed yet.;
• if every product on the visit is unconfirmed, every use line simply reads ask your applicator;
• the applicator's wrap-up shows the same caution, and office managers and company admins get a push: Confirm water-use restrictions for … under Inventory so customers get dates instead of 'ask your applicator'.

Confirmation is a deliberate action with a name and a date, and it is revoked the moment the numbers change.

1. 1

   Enter the label's days

   Open the product under Inventory and choose Edit Details. In Water-use restrictions after application, fill each row from the label: a number of days, 0 for no restriction, or leave it blank when the label does not say. Add the label's wording in Note where a date alone would mislead, put anything that always applies in General note, and record the label edition in Label reference. Choose Save Changes.

2. 2

   Confirm against the label

   Open Edit Details again. The card shows the pill Not confirmed — customers are told to ask the applicator and a Confirm against label button. Choose it, check or edit the reference in I checked these against, and choose Confirm. The pill changes to Confirmed, followed by the date and your name.

   The button only appears once the table is saved: if you have unsaved edits it reads Save your changes, then confirm them against the label.

3. 3

   Find the ones still waiting

   The Application Rates review under SettingsTreatment Protocols (and the same step in SettingsSetup Wizard) lists Water-use restrictions to confirm: every dosed product that is either entered, not yet confirmed against the label or has no label days entered, each with a link into its form. The Rule column on Inventory shows the same state as a pill on every dosed aquatic product: Restrictions confirmed, Restrictions not confirmed or No restrictions entered.

Editing any day, note or the general note and saving shows Saving will clear the confirmation. — and does. Changing only the label reference keeps it. Un-confirm on a confirmed product clears the stamp without touching the days.

How the Dates Are Counted

The notice is built once, when the applicator checks out, from the visit's chemical log:

1. The application time is the earliest chemical log entry on the visit.
2. For each water use, the wait is the longest number of days among the products that were applied and are confirmed. The product that set it is named on the line, and its note prints after the date.
3. The date is that many calendar days after the application date in your company's time zone. The application day is day 0: one day after a Tuesday visit is Wednesday. Labels are ambiguous about this; the later date is the safe reading.
4. A use every confirmed product marks 0 or omits reads no restriction.
5. If one confirmed product gives a number and another confirmed product leaves that use blank, the date is shown and the blank product is named: … (Fluridone Herbicide) — Flumigard Herbicide does not state this on its label; ask your applicator. Unknown is never treated as zero.
6. If every confirmed product leaves a use blank, it reads not stated on the label; ask your applicator.

Products applied but unconfirmed contribute nothing numeric; they are listed in the closing line instead. Re-completing a visit rebuilds the notice from the log as it stands; nothing else rewrites it, so what the customer received is what the job shows.

Verify It Worked

• Open a dosed product under Inventory: the Rule column shows Restrictions confirmed and the form's pill names the person and date.
• Complete a pond visit that logs that product. The wrap-up shows Tell the customer with a dated line for each restricted use and no "ask your applicator" line.
• Open the job under Jobs: Water-use notice sent to the customer matches the wrap-up word for word, and the customer's summary email carries the same "Water-use restrictions" section.
• Apply an unconfirmed product on a test visit: the notice names it in the closing line, and office managers receive the Confirm water-use restrictions push.