(05-22-2015, 05:19 PM)buzzenator Wrote: http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20140514/rip-out-your-lawn-get-paid-double-says-drought-minded-metropolitan-water-district

Yanni...are you ripping up your lawn?

I've started a "donate a gallon of water" campaign for all our LA Haliens in need.

If we all contribute...well, you can probably save a patch of grass the size of a Monopoly board...which is just enough to massage your feet!

Haley Reinhart inspiring others to action!

(05-16-2015, 12:46 PM)john Wrote:

(05-22-2015, 05:19 PM)buzzenator Wrote: http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20140514/rip-out-your-lawn-get-paid-double-says-drought-minded-metropolitan-water-district

Yanni...are you ripping up your lawn?

I've started a "donate a gallon of water" campaign for all our LA Haliens in need.

If we all contribute...well, you can probably save a patch of grass the size of a Monopoly board...which is just enough to massage your feet!

Haley Reinhart inspiring others to action!

(05-27-2015, 07:25 PM)yanni5 Wrote:

(05-22-2015, 05:19 PM)buzzenator Wrote: http://www.dailynews.com/environment-and-nature/20140514/rip-out-your-lawn-get-paid-double-says-drought-minded-metropolitan-water-district

Yanni...are you ripping up your lawn?

I've started a "donate a gallon of water" campaign for all our LA Haliens in need.

If we all contribute...well, you can probably save a patch of grass the size of a Monopoly board...which is just enough to massage your feet!

Haley Reinhart inspiring others to action!

I haven't ripped out the lawn yet Buzz. It is a possibility though.

As it stands now, we are required to cut our water usage by at least 25%
from what we used in 2013. Lawn watering is currently allowed 3 days a week, for no more than 8 minutes, although they are considering lowering that to 2 days a week. They recommend only washing your car at a car wash, but you are still allowed to wash your car at home if you have a shutoff nozzle on the hose. Also, they are considering requiring all homeowners with pools to use a pool cover to help prevent evaporation.

I did manage to reduce my usage by around 30%. To achieve that, I decided to retire the jacuzzi, and also I let the lawn on the side-yard die out. I do still water the front lawn twice a week. We're in our cloudy/overcast time of the year right now (May Gray and June Gloom), so that has helped also.

My water and power provider is the DWP, and the rebates they are offering for lawn removal are pretty high right now, $3.75 a square foot. There are companies that will come rip out your lawn and landscape it with rock and drought resistant plants at no charge, all you have to do is sign over the rebate to them. A few of my neighbors have done it, and the results look pretty weak. I would be better off doing it myself, and collecting the rebate.

Buzz, I appreciate you taking charge and starting the "donate a gallon of water" campaign, we can use all the help we can get.

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