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 $500 for overwatering lawns.‘Despite the water conservation efforts, we wish to remind you that limited watering is still required to keep landscaping looking healthy and green,’ the letter stated.
It included pictures of the dead lawn with a red line through it, a weedy line similarly crossed out, and finally an uncrossed green lawn with a sprinkler.
‘It is telling me I’d better get my lawn green and I have 60 days to do it,’ Laura said.Ironically, on the same day the couple received the letter the State Water Resources Control Board gave local agencies power to fine for overwatering lawns to help reduce water consumption as the state is in the third year of record low rainfall.
Should the couple wish to improve their lawn they’ll likely have to water it every day.
‘It seems like you’ll be fined if you overwater but we will be fined no matter what,’ Laura said.
Source: dailymail.co.uk
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Just wondering who is the EPA fining for all the polution for all these wild fires out west….
nuts
and this is America , what a shame
It’s a bull$#%&!@* double-standard
I would love to return to the day when this country practiced Common Law in this country Of course, I don’t see that happening. Those days were before the American BAR couped the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial systems of our country which enabled them to write, implement, and ensure the compliance of never ending statutes and codes. The more attorneys, the more statutes and codes need to be written. They have to make a living some how.
Dye it green.
California, if not at it’s HEIGHT of STUPIDITY, is REAL CLOSE.
They will get you any way you turn, unless you turn to Jesus!
Heres a simple solution…. Take a trip down to the local hardware and buy some green spray paint…. and paint it green 😉 Try and get the enviromentally friendly type… 😉
California government out of control and so liberal and set on creating a socialist state