Michael Korte and wife Laura Whitney from Glendora, CA face $500 in fines and even criminal action if they don’t turn their brown lawn green again, which died because they were trying to comply with California water regulations.
Don’t you just love the government’s ability to coordinate their activities?
On Tuesday — when the couple received the letter — state regulators authorized fines up to $500 for overwatering lawns.‘Despite the water conservation efforts, we wish to remind you that limited watering is still required to keep landscaping looking healthy and green,’ the letter stated.
It included pictures of the dead lawn with a red line through it, a weedy line similarly crossed out, and finally an uncrossed green lawn with a sprinkler.
‘It is telling me I’d better get my lawn green and I have 60 days to do it,’ Laura said.Ironically, on the same day the couple received the letter the State Water Resources Control Board gave local agencies power to fine for overwatering lawns to help reduce water consumption as the state is in the third year of record low rainfall.
Should the couple wish to improve their lawn they’ll likely have to water it every day.
‘It seems like you’ll be fined if you overwater but we will be fined no matter what,’ Laura said.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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they have to get funds to pay for all the illegals there some way
Maybe they should have bought a little more water from Nestles at WalMart.
HAVE GREEN PAINT IF NEEDED
just another way to extort money from the general public
Green paint. Or build a rock garden. Maybe lay out a bunch of plastic grass door mats?
California has to leave the people alone about brown lawns, you can’t water them right so leave them alone and quit trying to just take more money from them, you know if you don’t water things do turn brown.
Are you really surprised people? Come on, its CA. As a whole they’re no brighter than terrorists but just as dangerous because they like to spread their moronic ideas to other states. And then we will all wonder how things got so screwed up
vote the bums out
they need to pay for all the illegals in Los Angeles…
Paint it