COUNTYWIDE : Water Board Weighs Rebates for Toilets
Water users in Calleguas Municipal Water District who install ultra-low-flow toilets will receive a $100 rebate check this fall if the district’s board of directors adopts a conservation program tonight, officials said.
The Ultra Low-Flow Toilet Rebate Program will replace 5,000 toilets with new units that use about a gallon-and-a-half per flush, district spokesman Eric Bergh said. Officials hope that the program will save enough water to supply 400 families for a year.
To participate in the program, water users who install new toilets must have them inspected by district officials. If the units meet program specifications, a rebate check will be issued, officials said.
If adopted, the program will begin in October.
Half of the funding for the program, expected to total $1 million including administrative costs, will come from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, the agency that sells water to suppliers from Ventura County to the Mexican border. Calleguas and its water suppliers will share the remaining costs of the program.
The district serves customers in Thousand Oaks, Simi Valley, Moorpark, Camarillo and Oxnard.
The board meets at 7:30 p.m. in the district office, 2100 Olsen Road in Thousand Oaks.
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