Diablo Water Lose Your Lawn, Gain a Garden Rebate

Requirements

• Apply and get approval before removing any lawn.
• At least 50% of the area in low-water or native plants.
• Mulch the converted area.
• Remove or cap sprinkler heads in the converted area; drip, hand watering, or low-application sprinklers with CCWD's approval.
• For single-family, multifamily, commercial and institutional customers with metered landscape water in CCWD's retail and wholesale service area: Clayton, Clyde, Concord, Pacheco, Port Costa, Antioch, Oakley, Pittsburg, Bay Point, Martinez and parts of Brentwood, Pleasant Hill and Walnut Creek.
• Apply and wait for CCWD's Notice to Proceed before removing any lawn; CCWD may inspect before and after. Finish within 6 months, and keep the new landscape for 5 years.
• Convert at least 300 sq ft, or less if it is 100% of the lawn. The lawn must have been maintained; brown from watering cutbacks is fine. A site can take part more than once up to its maximum.
• At least 50% plant cover at maturity from CCWD's Approved Plant List; artificial grass and concrete together at most 20%; at least 2 inches of mulch on bare soil.
• Remove or cap the sprinkler heads; water by drip, by hand, or by low-application sprinklers if CCWD approves. A W-9 is needed for rebates of $600 or more. Questions: (925) 688-8320.

Steps, in order

1. Apply on Diablo Water District’s site and wait for approval. Lawn removed before approval usually does not qualify.
2. Remove the lawn and plant to the requirements above.
3. Send what the program page asks for once the work is done.