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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How stupid California governor is an idiot !
ya i got a letter in NE because my weeds were too tall
Good ole California, the home of the no-win scenario
yeah that’s why I don’t live there and if North Carolina don’t get their heads out of their buttts people will be leaving it also
Only in the Peoples Democratic Republic of California can you get fined for obeying the law and fined for disobeying the law. True Communism in action.
That order is illegal and because jerry brown ordered a two day limit on watering. Many yards will go brown
Bet no one has thought of using spray paint,..
Well, it is California.
liberal bureaucracy
i WOULD DIE IT GREEN THEN GREEN FOOD COLORING WORKS WELL.