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paid through a combination of property taxes and connection fees. Daily operation and maintenance costs, which are further separated between the water and sewer systems, are funded through monthly user service charges. The IRWD's basic principle behind these precise allocations of cost is that each end-user pays his fair share, no more and no less.
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by treating wastewater and reusing it for irrigation and other non-potable, or non-drinking, uses. The primary uses of recycled water are agricultural and landscape irrigation including parks, school grounds, golf courses, freeway landscaping and irrigation of common areas managed by homeowner
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associations. Recycled water is also used for front and backyard irrigation in large residential lots, for industrial processes, and for toilet flushing and cooling towers in dozens of dual-plumbed office buildings. The color of recycled water pipes, known worldwide as
304:– John B. Withers has served on the IRWD Board of Directors since 1989. He was reappointed in 1990 and has been subsequently re-elected to serve on the Board. He served as President of the Board in 2004 and in a number of other officer capacities as well.
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If a customer's water usage exceeds his or her monthly allocation, their cost of water will increase due to the need for IRWD to purchase more expensive sources of water, such as imported water from the
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simply by leaving their sprinklers on too long. After this wasted water flows to the curb it carries trash, fertilizers, pet waste and other pollutants into the storm drain system which flows into
325:–Steven E. LaMar was appointed to the IRWD Board of Directors in February 2009 to fill a vacancy and then was elected in the November 2010 election. He served as Board President in 2011.
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