Santa Clarita, CA Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)

020 states its purpose as regulating the sale and use of recycled water produced at the City's Water Factory. 030(A) is the operative prohibition: no person, whether an individual, corporation, city, county, district, joint powers authority, the state, or the United States, may purchase, sell, distribute, or use Water Factory recycled water, directly or through an intermediate party, unless that transaction is governed by a wholesale-recycled water purchase agreement with the City. Subsection (B) requires every such agreement to incorporate the waste discharge and water reclamation requirements of the State Water Resources Control Board and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board, plus compliance with the federal Clean Water Act, the federal Safe Drinking Water Act, California's Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, and Title 22, Division 4, Chapter 3 of the California Code of Regulations.

Subsection (C) directs the City Engineer to enter into the wholesale agreement with SCV Water, the regional water retailer, or any other state-authorized distributor before any delivery of recycled water begins. 040 gives the City Engineer authority to write implementing rules and to administer and enforce the chapter, and lets that authority be delegated to City staff. 050 sets the penalty structure: a written determination by the City Engineer that a violation occurred can trigger termination of the user agreement and immediate cessation of recycled-water delivery, subject to notice-and-hearing procedures the City Engineer must adopt consistent with due process. The chapter was adopted in full by Ordinance 19-3 on July 9, 2019.