No Albuquerque or Bernalillo County sanitation prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the Water Authority / sewer utility.
Cities
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No City of Atlanta sewer prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask Watershed / the sewer utility before you cut a brine drain.
No Austin Water sewer prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Confirm with Austin Water wastewater before you cut a brine drain.
No Dallas or regional wastewater prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer department before you cut a brine drain.
No Denver Water or Metro Wastewater prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the sewer utility on the bill. This is not a legal opinion.
No City of Houston prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Municipal utility districts outside the city limits are not this ordinance search. Ask the sewer provider on the bill.
No Southern Nevada sanitation prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up for this file. HOAs and specific districts can still write rules. Ask the agency on the sewer bill.
City of Los Angeles sewer is LASAN. The LACSD automatic-softener prohibition we cite is the Santa Clarita Valley / Measure S file, not a citywide Los Angeles rule. We did not find a published LASAN ban comparable to Measure S. Adjacent LACSD cities are a different sewer. Ask the agency on the sewer bill.
No Phoenix city or county sanitation prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up in the research for this file. Still ask the agency on the sewer bill before cutting a brine drain — rules change by jurisdiction, not by metro-area folklore.
No Portland BES prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. On Bull Run water a salt softener is usually the wrong machine anyway. Private wells in Clackamas or Washington County are not this sewer search.
Inland Empire agencies talk about salinity. We did not find a Riverside city ordinance that bans residential self-regenerating softeners the way LACSD does in the Santa Clarita Valley. Ask the sewer utility — Western Municipal and the city are not interchangeable.
No City of Sacramento prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. California still authorizes local agencies to restrict self-regenerating softeners by ordinance. Ask Utilities / the sewer side of the bill.
No Salt Lake City Public Utilities sewer prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the utilities / sewer side of the bill.
The 2025 City of San Diego CCR we opened does not include a Measure S-style prohibition. California Health and Safety Code still lets a local agency restrict self-regenerating softeners if they adopt an ordinance. Ask the sewer agency before you cut a brine drain.
No San Jose ordinance matching the LACSD Santa Clarita Valley automatic-softener prohibition turned up for this file. Valley Water and the city sewer are not that district. Ask the agency that owns the sewer before you cut a brine drain.
LACSD prohibits automatic salt-based softeners that discharge chloride to the sewer. Measure S (2008) required removal of those units. Santa Clarita’s plumbing code excepts portable-exchange tanks that discharge no brine on site.
No Tampa or Hillsborough sewer prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Ask the wastewater utility before you cut a brine line.
No Tucson or Pima County sanitation prohibition comparable to LACSD Measure S turned up. Still ask the agency on the sewer bill. Private wells and isolated Tucson Water systems are not the Main System CCR.