The association asked the IEUA to put the law on hold and listen to the voices of area residents and experts.
Peter Censky, executive director of WQA, said: “Based on nearby experience, if this is enforced, residents under the IEUA will need to get used to the idea of a knock on the door from the ‘wrench police’. The agency rushed through an ordinance that will lead the government into people’s basements and garages while not even accomplishing what they set out to do.”
Censky said that in July, members of IEUA passed an ordinance to ban residents, in areas the agency controls, from putting in a customary water softener in their own homes. Before the meeting, the agency only called on supporters to attend and did not provide useful notice of its intent to the public.
Depending on how local municipalities would enforce the ordinance, residents could face big fines or be charged as criminals for putting in softeners.
WQA has sent letters informing local municipalities of the problems with the ordinance and asked that elected officials work cooperatively on the issue.
Censky said the ordinance will not measurably help solve the problem of salinity that the area is facing. The IEUA acknowledges that at least 90% of salinity comes from sources other than softeners.
Source: Water Quality Association
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