Published on Wednesday, August 27, 2008
By JENNIFER BOWLES
The sun is just rising over the Inland region and Bill Stephens is on his cop beat, chasing down abusers. Water abusers, that is.
Perhaps the region's first and only water cop, he arms himself with a camera looking for over-saturated lawns across a vast area of western Riverside County from Moreno Valley to Murrieta that is served by Perris-based Eastern Municipal Water District.
"I just saw a spot back there," he said, bringing his van to an abrupt halt. He jumps out to check a broken sprinkler head outside a large commercial facility in Perris. The leaking water drenched the sidewalk and gushed down the curb to the road.
"That's running pretty good, I'd say a good six to seven gallons per minute," Stephens said.
Although Stephens scours the region only for runoff outside commercial and industrial complexes, the district's employees will start looking at residential yards for similar violations starting Monday
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