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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Green paint !
you said not to use water so they didn’t
Stupid people in government!
Paint it! Do the rules mandate actual grass growth or just a green looking lawn?? Eh!
How ridiculous!!!
That is the Libtards for ya. Damned if you do and Damned if you don’t
It is part of their Agenda to destroy. Wake up America. Hugs
I worked for the Gov’t for years and this is exactly the kind of think they do. I never saw anything the dept. I worked for do anything sensible. It seems the zany the better is their motto no matter the outcome. I would definitely alert your predicament to fox news, sometimes Fox can make entity’s see how insane they really are
STUPID: paint it gree or plant ground cover..or sod: if you can’t get that toether RENT!
Typical for government…they never know what they are doing…but if they do actually do something, you can bet it will be wrong!!!