State officials are cracking down on towns that haven’t filed plans for conserving water during the drought and the penalty could be as high as $10,000 a month.
The Department of Environment and Natural Resources said today that 55 North Carolina towns are out of compliance with a law passed last year that required municipal water systems to submit water shortage response plans by July 1.
Towns that don’t have their own plans must follow the state’s conservation rules within 10 days of a drought. State rules ban uses such as lawn watering. Local plans must show how water system would deal with a drought.
Source: Asheville Citizen-Times
Now that the Stae of North Carolina has Water Czar Authority granted to them through the passage of S.L. 2008-143 "Drought/Water Management Reccommendations" to levy fines and seek a toehold to put meters on wells.
Just as a note to these water czars, I make it a point to leave the water running after I use public facilities just to spite them.
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