The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority recently voted to drastically reduce the Bob Hope Airport’s water usage. They will move to a watering schedule of 15 minutes a day, per station, for up to three days a week. This will go down to single day during winter months. Mark Hardyment, director of Noise and Environmental Programs, says this decision comes just a week after the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California voted to increase rates up by 20% and impose penalty rates on groups who exceeded their designated water usage.

Burbank plans to reduce water usage in other ways at the airport and around the city. Burbank Leader reports, “Burbank in May expanded its sustainable water use ordinance from four to six stages, imposing irrigation timetables, prohibiting residents from hosing down driveways, patios and sidewalks and banning restaurants, hotels, motels, cafes and cafeterias from serving water unless requested by customers.”

“The second stage brings the airport more closely in line with Glendale, and Pasadena by limiting the irrigation of landscaped areas to three days a week — Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays — April through October, and on Saturdays November through March. The Crescenta Valley Water District and Los Angeles Department of Water & Power have already limited irrigation to just two days a week.”

 The Burbank-Glendale-Pasadena Airport Authority is a separate government agency created under a joint powers agreement between the three cities of Burbank, Glendale and Pasadena in 1977 for the sole purpose of owning and operating the Bob Hope Airport.  The Authority consists of nine commissioners, three from each city.  The commissioners from each city are appointed by their city council.

“We’re implementing them now rather than later because it’s the right thing to do,” Commissioner Charles Lombardo said. “We’re a big property, and we use a lot of water.”

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