As Cary goes, so goes the rest of the Tar Heel State.
The Raleigh City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a rebate program for energy efficient toilets (the N&O mentions it briefly here). Cary approved a similar program last year.
From the City of Raleigh:
Under this first program, the City will offer $100 rebates to City of Raleigh water and sewer customers who confirm in accordance with the City?s guidelines that they have purchased and installed water-efficient flush toilets to replace their existing flush toilets.
In order to meet the minimum qualifications for the toilet replacement rebate program, the new flush toilets must be ?water sense certified? and not use more than 1.28 gallons of water per flush. Over the next few weeks, the City?s Public Utilities Department will develop the toilet rebate application/installation certification forms that customers must complete and submit to the City in order to receive the rebate funds. In order to insure that proper water conserving toilets have been installed, the City will conduct random inspection audits at some customer locations that receive the rebate funding (emphasis mine).
The IRS is bad enough. Now we’ve got the Internal Toilet Service.
