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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wait, wait…. We have people rioting in Ferguson, folks running around and beheading folks in the name if Islam, a Marine in Mexico being held of false charges, Barack Obama ignoring the constitution at every turn, and they want to press criminal charges against a couple for having brown grass?!?!? ARE YOU KIDDING ME!? Is this Soviet Russia?!? You people better open your eyes and see what the hell is going on in this country, or we will be a suburb of Soviet Russia… smdh….
Entrapment
AND what do the ‘GRAND PEOPLE’ have for their lawn?
don’t you think it’s time for the citizens to take their state back from the criminals they elected to rob them and regulate them out of existance
Don’ t you just love it!
I’d spray paint it green.F city hall
Dye that bitch.
You can’t have it both ways.
paint it
Another reason to despise Californication!