State forces ban on non-essential outside water use

Picton said:
I can say definitively that I've never once felt the need to water my lawn, lol.

I grew up in Southern California, where you had to water copiously if you wanted any grass. Here? Nature does my watering.
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Watering lawns means mowing lawns which means less time for hunting and fishing. I've never understood the desire to waste so much of life's precious time on yard chores - never once has one been on their deathbed and said they wished they had a nicer lawn or yard.
 
kevin9 said:
Traditionally drought has been defined as lower precipitation over a noticeable period of time (months? years?). Increase
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yes, that 50% of the time on average where your below the average half the time, I'm sure that's how they calculate it base on what ever time period they choose. so probably can skew the number to more like 75% of the time your in a "technical drought" base on their numbers that are made up anyway
 
Havent had appreciable rain here for 5 months in S FL. 70-80 and sunny low humidity every day...yet.....no water bans. I barely have to wash my cars, only dust off from going down the dirt road to the sporting clays club.

But no problem. All water is used from retention ponds and those will fill back up in summer from afternoon thunderstorms. My pond is 10 feet down right now....and great fishing because the fish are more concentrated.

There is fire weather today...its been breezy as of late......we could certainly use some rain, but humidity would come with it and in May summer with humidity will really start for 5 months.
 
Blackmore said:
They'll just keep pushing since there's seldom any push back.
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Why push back? Just go do it anyway. It's not like the state sends out a notice to my house or anything that like that "informing" me that there's a watering ban. I don't watch ANY local or state news - so how else would I phucking know?
 
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Taipan01 said:
Most of the reservoirs, lakes, ponds around here have their sluice gates open to release the water out to sea. Don't really have the space to store any more so they release it. When the summer droughts start and with the increase in population/building use, then so do the bans. Kind of a snake eating its own tail.
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I just noticed one of the town reservoirs (not for drinking) here had new boards up. It was like 6 8x8's or maybe 2x8's. They used to have maybe one or none for at least 10 to 20 years before now. Maybe they are starting to think about it.
 
FalArAk said:
Eh, I think the only thing water should be used for outside is watering future food...Maybe flowers.

Lawns are a waste of water.
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If you're watering your lawn - you're sort of doing it wrong IMHO. Granted not everybody has this luxury, but I've been terraforming my lot for years now. In places where I plant grass - I put down a minimum of 10 inches of topsoil ,and I make sure that the soil underneath that will hold water to some degree. Then plant good grass, overseed in the spring - and it seems to just take care of itself - other than needing to be mowed. When we had that real drought a few years back - my lawn was one of the last in the neighborhood to go brown. And when it finally did drop some rain - it greened right up again within days. I have not watered the parts of my lawn that I did over like this - since the original seed was put down.

Caveats, took a lot of time and excavation work and I burned a bunch of diesel doing the work. But I figured : put the work in up front - and reap the benefits (no watering) - for decades afterwards. I also had the thought in the back of my head - that if times really got tough - the yard just gets tilled up and used to plant a garden. With a foot or so of topsoil there I should be able to grow just about anything.

My front lawn only has about 3-4 inches of topsoil - and underneath that is sand (put there by the original builder) - the grass grows like complete shit there. It's on my list of things to "fix" - I just haven't gotten there yet. But comparing the front yard - the parts of the rear yard where there's a deep topsoil layer - is a pretty graphic demonstration of how much soil matters.

And yes - I have had to truck in topsoil to do some of this work. But that's a one time cost - the water bill happens all the time.
 
If you don’t water your lawn it won’t be good habitat for grubs and then skunks and other such furry friends that like to dig up your lawn will die of hunger. Save the grubs!
 
I got this one all figured out, one day it'll happen to me:

1. I freely water lawn
2. cop notices me watering lawn during ban and issues ticket
3. I disputes ticket in court
4. I say, "your honor, the source of my water could be either (1) a private well, or (2) a rain collection system, or (3) town water. What evidence does the officer have that it was town water?"
5. officer says, "well, I assume it was town water"
6. me: "an assumption is not evidence"
7. I say, "... the presumption of innocence is among the most sacred principles of the US court system ...."
8. judge says to me: "what was the source of the water coming out of your hose?"
9. I say, "I plead the 5th on that question"
10. judge dismisses ticket
 
This was an article in the last two weeks showing that we are under the amounts of snowfall and water for the year beginning, that's why we are in a drought. Also, the reason you can water your garden is because growing food is exempt from any bans.

So plant some edibles in your front yard like dandelions and tell them to eff off, simple and done.
 
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JoseyWales said:
I got this one all figured out, one day it'll happen to me:

1. I freely water lawn
2. cop notices me watering lawn during ban and issues ticket
3. I disputes ticket in court
4. I say, "your honor, the source of my water could be either (1) a private well, or (2) a rain collection system, or (3) town water. What evidence does the officer have that it was town water?"
5. officer says, "well, I assume it was town water"
6. me: "an assumption is not evidence"
7. I say, "... the presumption of innocence is among the most sacred principles of the US court system ...."
8. judge says to me: "what was the source of the water coming out of your hose?"
9. I say, "I plead the 5th on that question"
10. judge dismisses ticket
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#4 The State will say that you haven’t pulled a permit for a well, or a rain catchment system therefore it must be city water. Or you could pull a permit and pay the fees and retroactive fines until the permit is signed off…...

The obligatory:

 
JoseyWales said:
The well/cistern was already there when I bought the house.
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Don’t know where you live but wells usually have to be registered with your board of health. I hear this type of stuff all the time. Yes some people fall through the cracks but at the end of the day after all the foot stamping about over my dead body it’s private property and your attack dogs or your fancy new shotgun if your connected to public water supply tptb will get in your house and see what your up to eventually. Even the wells they know about and it’s only a matter of time before there’s a tax on that.
 
It’s cheaper to let it die and then re-seed 1st or 2nd week in September and hope for enough rain.

It’s too much to water.
 
chris_1001 said:
It's crazy the amount of building here... And I'm sick of the water ban.
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And we pay a water runoff fee based on the impermeable parts of our property, roofs, driveway and walkway. Not one piece of my property is sloped to the road, so I am adding zero to the storm water. If I have to pay, I'll use what I want.
 

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