Sam Castor regrets shelling out $50,000 to rip out the grass at his Summerlin home to install artificial turf. But it was a last resort to get the Las Vegas Valley Water District off his lawn.

Castor filed a legal challenge Tuesday in Clark County District Court against the water district’s punitive and controversial excessive use fees. The Las Vegas lawyer alleges that the water district unfairly jacked up his water bills 500 percent and failed to establish a required appeal process, violating its service contract to customers and both the Nevada and U.S. Constitutions.

“I think they’re trying to point the finger at everybody else, so nobody points the finger at them,” Castor said in a Tuesday interview. “I don’t mind being that one guy that points the finger back.”

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