Sensors can play a very important role in helping to reduce water consumption, and overwatering in the landscape. The two most common sensors used in Florida are rain sensors and soil moisture probes. As a whole, both of these suspend watering during periods of rainy...
Water conservation in the landscape is not just about saving water. More importantly it is about protecting our environment, promoting a healthy landscape and doing our part to help conserve the resource. Too much water in the landscape reduces the amount of oxygen in...
Keeping an irrigation system operating properly is a very effective way of insuring that water is not being wasted, and that the landscape is being watered properly. Most irrigation systems run while we are sleeping so unless someone checks the system during the...
Keeping your irrigation system in tip top condition is one of the best ways to minimize the inefficient use of water and to protect the investment you have in both your landscape and in your irrigation system. Heads should be adjusted to prevent overspray onto...
As we often do during the winter months we are seeing some of the problems with artesian wells. An artesian well is simply a free-flowing well that does not require a pump to bring water to the surface. This occurs when the water table in the aquifer is high enough to...
Happy New Year to everyone! Hopefully this holiday season was a good one for everybody and that we are all excited about the prospects for a GREAT new year. Good luck with all of those new year’s resolutions! As we begin the new year please keep in mind that January,...
One of the keys to using water efficiently in the landscape is to apply water evenly over each zone in an irrigation system. Distribution uniformity (DU) is a measurement of how evenly water is applied to the area being irrigated and is expressed as a percentage. DU...
One of the newest developments to hit the light commercial and residential irrigation markets are ET, weather-based, “smart controllers”. The technology was originally developed for large-scale agricultural irrigation systems and has slowly filtered its way down...
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