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Sun 8 Jul, 2007 03:18 pm
Well, this story probably has a few sides to it.
Still, interesting use of the police time...
Also, interesting-seeming city ordinance, though I'd have to read it to be sure of my questioning.
It's in the nineties all week in Odem, Utah, with July just starting. A tad warm for insisting on green lawns in the hot dry west, re water usage.
Woman jailed for 'neglected' lawn
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6282348.stm
and
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=Orem+Utah
Good grief. People should be jailed for OVER-watering. (A neighbor had their sprinkler on all day -- yes ALL day -- recently. I thought maybe they forgot about it and was weighing whether I should go turn it off to be neighborly when the neighbor calmly walked out, repositioned it, and went back inside. Repositioning happened a few more times. ALL day. <shaking head>)
I'll admit to being feisty about use of lawns in hot dry areas. I stopped doing landscape design for housing tracts almost a couple of decades back because of planning guidelines for lawns in arid places.
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