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Irrigation technology’s growing pains

Posted by: Aqua Blog Maven on May 14, 2009 at 6:24 am

From the Water Efficiency Journal:

Money was easy to borrow, and, at the same time, droughts were front-page stories. For two decades–plus, millions of single-family, cluster, and town homes were being put up, with nice lawns to maintain. Along the way, irrigation systems became a must-have option. Like electric garage door openers, everyone had to have automatic sprinklers with the new home, as standard.

To feed the demand, new “smart” data-encoded irrigation control products issued forth, evolved quickly, and were added onto developers’ plans.

And during this time, few, if any, codes and standards were issued by regulatory bodies; nothing adequate to assure quality or standardization in rapidly growing practices of landscape irrigation design, installation, operation, or technology.

The result?

From his vantage in the field—encountering landscape systems almost daily—Timothy Malooly, an EPA WaterSense Partner and president of Irrigation Consultants & Control Inc. (Plymouth, MN), observes that, “Thousands of irrigation systems that have been installed in the last 10 years … are performing very poorly.”

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May 14, 2009 · Filed Under Drought Tolerant Landscaping

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