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Water Official Send Out Patrols: $500 Fine
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April 28th, 2009
Santa Cruz takes on some drastic measures, but for a good cause obviously. Water restrictions will begin Friday for about 90,000 residents from the North Coast to Capitola, after Santa Cruz leaders on Tuesday unanimously approved an emergency order to save water. I’d rather see their energy put towards rolling out a rebate program for something like the One2flush.
The proposed measures go further than conservation rules enforced in 2007, when residents were asked to water only in the early morning or at night, and are the strictest since 1990, when water was rationed. Chronic rule breakers could be fined up to $500. Read the entire article in the San Jose Mercury News here.
