Lompoc has a population of 38,107 and depends on solely on ground water for its drinking water supply. The city has implemented both voluntary and regulatory water conservation programs. A city ordinance requires all new development projects to participate in a retrofit program. As part of the construction permitting process, developers of new projects are required to either retrofit a specified number of households or businesses with low flow toilets, showerheads and faucets or pay the city a fee with which it administers a volunteer household and business retrofit program.

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