WATER FINES RELIEF Many local residents are letting their lawns go brown to save on water during the drought. There are even penalties now for wasting water, so you don’t want to get caught with water running down the street from your lawn sprinklers! But some homeowners are getting nasty notices from their local homeowner’s association for not keeping their lawns green, so it’s created quite a catch-22! However, there is a new law on the books that provides relief for this situation. On July 22 of this year, Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2100 into law. The prevents homeowner’s associations from fining residents who stop watering their lawns during drought emergencies. Governor Brown had declared a drought emergency back in January of this year. This new law only applies to homeowner’s associations, so other entities like a city or county could still potentially fine someone for not keeping their lawn green if they have laws like that on their books. However, I’d expect they will be quite lax on enforcing those laws given the severity of this drought. I did hear a landscape “expert” interviewed the other day on the radio and he swears that most lawns won’t die if you stop watering them for a period of time. He claims it will just go dormant and will bounce back when you start watering it again. I have seen many brown lawns come back when water is turned on again, so he may be right. I’m sure eventually they will die if you leave them dry long enough, so be careful!
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:42:26 +0000
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