Jurupa Valley encourages rainwater capture and graywater reuse: projects under 2,500 sq ft of landscape that meet their entire water requirement with captured rainwater or graywater qualify for the simplified prescriptive compliance path under JVMC Chapter 9.283.
JVMC Section 9.283.030(D), part of the city's Water Efficient Landscape Design Requirements (Ordinance No. 2015-17, amended by Ordinance No. 2021-09), creates an incentive for on-site water reuse. Lots with less than 2,500 square feet of landscape that meet the landscape's estimated total water use entirely with treated or untreated graywater or stored rainwater captured on site are exempt from the full landscape documentation package and are subject only to the irrigation requirements of the Prescriptive Compliance Option (Appendix D of the Water Efficient Landscape Worksheet). The chapter's stated purposes include conserving water by capturing and reusing rainwater and graywater wherever reasonably possible, and model homes must demonstrate low-water approaches such as graywater systems and rainwater catchment (Section 9.283.050). There is no city prohibition on collecting rainwater; California law (AB 1750, the Rainwater Capture Act of 2012) allows residential rainwater capture from rooftops statewide.
No penalty attaches to harvesting rainwater. Projects claiming the graywater/rainwater exemption that do not actually meet their full landscape water requirement on site lose the streamlined path and must complete the standard WELO documentation, plan review and audit process before permits are finalized.
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