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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can’t cure stupid
hay has seeds just put it over the seeded dirt . It will keep in the moisture.
maybe they should just get artificial turf…would that satisfy the idiots?….jan
Spray paint it
California! What next?
I’m afraid I would go buy 2 cans of green spray paint and solve that problem!
This is typical c**p. Damned if you do and damned if you don’t. This is what they count on to put the screws to you.
TRY PAINT — I HEAR GREEN IS A NICE COLOR
It’s a tightening of the noose on the American People. HAARP is more than far enough along to bring rain to California. Desalination is more than far enough along to provide drinking water. In addition to control, the vultures want to shove an $11 billion Bond up our posteriors.
http://ballotpedia.org/California_Proposition_43,_Water_Bond_%282014%29
Communism 101. Make something illegal, then make NOT doing that something illegal. Making criminals from scratch! Now we have slaves, glory glory glory!