- (a) All landscape irrigation audits shall be conducted by a certified landscape irrigation auditor. Landscape irrigation audits shall not be conducted by the person who designed the landscape or installed the landscape.
- (b) In large landscape projects or landscape projects with multiple landscape installations (i.e., production home developments) an auditing rate of 1 in 7 individual lots or approximately 15% of the total number of individual lots will satisfy this requirement.
(c) For new construction and rehabilitated landscape projects installed after December 1, 2015, as described in Section 493:
- (1) the project applicant shall submit an irrigation audit report with the Certificate of Completion Package to the local agency that may include, but is not limited to, inspection, system tune-up, system test with distribution uniformity, and reporting overspray or run off that causes overland flow; and
- (2) the local agency shall administer programs that may include, but not be limited to, irrigation water use analysis, irrigation audits, and irrigation surveys for compliance with the Maximum Applied Water Allowance.
Note: Authority cited: Sections 65596 and 65596.5, Government Code. Reference: Sections 65593, 65596 and 65596.5, Government Code.
History
1. New section filed 1-2-2025; operative 1-2-2025 pursuant to Government Code section 11343.4(b)(3) (Register 2025, No. 1).