Compton, CA Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)

32 has stayed on the books ever since to give the City Council a ready-made structure for six escalating shortage phases. 32(e)(2)(b), a customer may not hose down a car, trailer, boat or other mobile equipment except with a handheld bucket or a shutoff-nozzle hose, unless the washing happens at a commercial car wash or uses reclaimed water instead of the potable supply. Subsection (c) bars filling or topping off decorative fountains, ponds or lakes with potable water unless the water runs through a recycling system.

The same exemption threads through every later phase: Phase II, III and IV curtailments each carry the identical clause that there shall be no restriction on watering with reclaimed water, even as potable irrigation schedules tighten to every third or fourth day. The residential odd/even watering calendar in Subsection (e)(2)(f) exempts the 31st of any month from the no-watering rule specifically unless reclaimed water is used. Together these clauses mean any Compton property irrigated, washed or filled with treated recycled water is not counted against the household's curtailment allotment and does not need Water Department pre-approval to keep using it during a declared shortage.

25, which describe it as wastewater that, after treatment, is suitable for uses other than drinking. Properties on reclaimed water still must meet the backflow-prevention standards of that section, including an air-gap separation where a reclaimed supply exists without cross-connection to the potable system.