Eric Schultz

2003 Eric Schultz

Eric Schultz, Schultz Industries, Inc.

Eric Schultz, CLT, CLP, CLIA

Eric Schultz, CLT - Schultz Industries, Inc.

Eric Schultz, erics@schultzindustries.net

Eric Schultz, erics@schultzindustries.net

Eric Schultz, CLT Schultz Industries, Inc. Golden, CO PH: 303 420-7677 E-mail: eric.schultz@schultzindustries.net
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Eric Schultz, CLT, National Board Representative

DENVER -- Landscaper Eric Schultz pleaded with city water officials to consider the impact on jobs and business if they limited outdoor watering again this year for more than 1 million homes and businesses.

"It's putting a lot of people out of business," Schultz, owner of Schultz Industries, said at a packed meeting of Denver Water Board commissioners.

Commissioners said they understood, but with reservoirs at 44 percent capacity, about the same as a year ago, they voted to restrict outdoor watering to two hours twice a week.

Residents who use excess water face surcharges.The rules take effect May 1.

Schultz told commissioners his income declined $1 million last year from $6.5 million, forcing him to lay off 30 workers.The restrictions may prompt more layoffs, he said.

Schultz and other landscapers said the restrictions effectively prohibit new sod or lawn seeding.

Eric Schultz, a landscaper and president of Associated Landscape Contractors of Colorado, agreed.Landscapers and others who earn a living from lawns and gardens took a heavy hit in the on-again, off-again watering regimen the past year because of the drought.

Schultz said some water-saving measures should remain in place for the long term to lessen the impact of future droughts.

"In the green industry, we don't want to go through again what we went through the last 18 months," he told the water board.

"Mother Nature is finally starting to take very good care of us, but the water districts are still beating the @#%X! out of us," says Eric Schultz of Schultz Industries, Golden, CO.That, in fact, was the message he recently delivered to members of the Denver Water Board.The outdoor water use restrictions had already caused his firm to lay off 30 workers.The restrictions were damaging the regional economy, affecting over one million residents.
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"We've done a better job of promoting landscaping's value and lifestyle values, and it's paying off," adds Eric Schultz.