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Committee backs requirement for low‑water turf and irrigation audits at state properties

Utah Legislature (committee hearing, body name not specified in transcript) · March 4, 2026
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Summary

The committee favorably recommended SB252, which would direct state facility projects to use low‑water turf for new landscaping and add distribution‑uniformity metrics to irrigation audits; DFCM and the Division of Water Resources supported the measure as a conservation step for the Great Salt Lake watershed.

Lawmakers voted to advance SB252, a bill requiring low‑water‑use turf on new landscaping projects at state‑owned facilities and directing facility audits to measure irrigation distribution uniformity.

Sponsor Senator Pitcher (S17) and Andy Mara (S18), director of the Division of Facilities Construction and Management (DFCM), described the proposal as a practical step to reduce outdoor…

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