Victorville, CA Water Use Rules: Recycled Water Rules (2026)
Key Facts
- Mandatory for
- New residential tract developments
- Individual lots
- Exempt from mandatory hookup
- Water standard
- Cal. Code Regs. Title 22 compliance required
- District policy
- Encourages voluntary recycled water use
- Reclaimed water users
- Must post non-potable signage (§10.05.140)
Summary
Victorville Water District requires reclaimed water pipelines in new residential tract developments to connect to the district's reclaimed water system where available, though the mandatory-hookup rule doesn't reach individual residential lots. District policy separately encourages every customer who already has a reclaimed line to use recycled water for landscaping whenever it's readily available and safe, to conserve potable supply.
(a)Reclaimed water pipelines in new residential tract developments shall be installed in accordance with the provisions of district's recycled water ordinance. Such pipelines shall be connected to the district's reclaimed water system, where available and/or appropriate. The foregoing requirements are not applicable to individual residential Lots.(b)It is district policy to encourage the use of reclaimed water, whenever such use is appropriate and safe, in order to conserve potable water. To further these efforts, all water users with reclaimed water pipelines should make reasonable efforts to use reclaimed water for landscaping purposes, whenever reclaimed water is readily available and will not pose a danger to human health and safety.
Official source re-checked September 7, 2026: no newer edition of the code had been published (publisher’s edition: Code of Ordinances: Supplement 57).
Full Breakdown
140, which requires anyone exempted from WSSCP watering restrictions because they use reclaimed water to post clear signage stating the water is non-potable and not from the public drinking supply. 030(w) as water processed by a municipal or comparable wastewater treatment plant that meets California Code of Regulations Title 22 requirements and has been approved for reuse by applicable federal, state or local regulatory agencies. The mandatory pipeline-installation duty in subsection (a) attaches specifically to new residential tract developments and requires those pipelines to tie into the district's reclaimed system "where available and/or appropriate"; the subsection expressly carves out individual residential lots from that mandatory-connection requirement.
Subsection (b) is framed as encouragement rather than command: it states district policy to encourage reclaimed water use "whenever such use is appropriate and safe" and asks water users with existing reclaimed pipelines to make "reasonable efforts" to irrigate with recycled water when it's readily available and won't endanger human health or safety. 010.
Violations & Fines
Section 10.05.130 doesn't set its own fine schedule, but a tract developer that skips the required reclaimed pipeline connection is subject to the same chapter 10.05 enforcement tools as any other violation: a notice of violation, then an administrative citation under section 10.05.150, with appeal rights to a hearing officer under section 10.05.200.
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