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

040), which the city council updates by resolution at least every five years. 060 limits the program to the Rialto Utility Authority's legal service area unless the city council and Utility Authority expressly approve extending service to outside land. 070 then sets the actual delivery rule: the Utility Authority provides recycled water 'where available' to customers within its retail boundaries, and the city may also serve other municipal agencies or private water retailers whose territory falls outside Rialto's own service area. The customer must be prepared to accept service either through a direct connection to the city's recycled water distribution system or through the retail agency's local distribution system, with the city or retail agency deciding which method applies based on the property's location.

090 the city engineer can review any parcel for suitability, notify the owner, and require conversion within a set schedule, subject to a 30-day objection period and an appeal path first to the director of public works and then to the city administrator. 120 equal to fifty percent of the Utility Authority's highest potable water rate applied to potable water used on site. 150 sets their rate at ninety percent of the potable irrigation rate, as the Utility Authority revises it from time to time.

130, though the city offers technical assistance and, at its discretion, financing for up to a ten-year loan term at the city's own borrowing rate.