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DWP offers cash incentive to remove lawns

Posted by: Maven on June 13, 2009 at 6:22 am

DWP has begun an incentive program for single-family homes to remove their lawns, modeled after the successful program in Las Vegas, which has eliminated more than 125 million square-feet of grass at a savings of over 7 billion gallons of water per year, according to the Los Angeles Times:

Here in Los Angeles, the new Residential Drought Resistant Landscape Incentive Program reported in The Times’ California Briefing last week is not regionwide. It applies only to Department of Water and Power customers, and it’s not the $1.50 per square foot that they pay in Vegas. Any other caveats?

The agency won’t be buying dead lawn, warns DWP spokeswoman Jane Galbraith. If the lawn is already dead, the water company takes the view that nature has already done the right thing for you.

But if you have 200 to 2,000 square feet of living lawn, then the DWP is willing to pay you to get rid of it. That includes the forlorn strip of lawn between the sidewalk and curb known as the “parkway.”

Read more from the Los Angeles Times by clicking here.

June 13, 2009 · Filed Under Southern California

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