1. Smart Irrigation
5 Steps to Watering Well

2. Why Water Well? Improve your landscape Reduce your water use
Reduce your water bill
Protect the environment
Reduce our community’s water demand

3. Five Steps How much water do you use? Evaluate your system
Repair and Adjust
Be more efficient
Get help

4. 1. How much water do you use?
Check your water bill

6. Test your flow rate Read your meter Run the sprinklers and time
Read your meter again
Subtract the difference

7. 2. Evaluate your System Check your sprinklers regularly Look for…
Watch them run
Map the system
Look for…
Appropriate equipment
Plugged, blocked or misdirected heads
Inadequate coverage
overspray
Leaks and damage
Slow turning on and off
Weeping

8. 3. Repair and Adjust Don’t procrastinate!
Collateral damage can cost more than the repair
Repair correctly

9. 4. Be More Efficient
Management
Maintenance
Technology

10. Management Make what you have work as well as it can
Evaluation and repairs
Learn your controller’s functions
Read the directions
Multiple programs
Multiple start times
Interval watering
Seasonal Adjustment
Schedule properly – Program correctly

11. Programming your controller
Identify zones
Assign zones to programs
Run times
Start times
Skip Days or Interval
Make the controller work for you.
Program the schedule for the landscape not the controller.
Stay organized.
Work through the steps.

12. Maintenance Pruning Lawn Care Natural vs. Shearing Fertilizer Mowing
Aeration
Dethatching
Reduce

13. New toys to upgrade your system
Technology
New toys to upgrade your system
Sprinklers
Low Volume/Drip
Controllers

14. Sprinklers
Rotary Nozzles

15. High Efficiency Spray Nozzles
Sprinklers
High Efficiency Spray Nozzles
Toro Precision
RainBird U-Series

16. Low Volume/Drip
Retrofit Devices

17. Low Volume/Drip
In-Line Emitter Tubing

18. Weather Based Irrigation Controllers
Signal Based
Weather Station
Web Based

19. Soil Moisture Sensors

20. Water Conservation Programs
Get Help
Water Conservation Programs
Water Wise House Calls
For City of Folsom Water Customers

21. Professional Help The Green Gardener Training Program
Find a list of graduates and specialties at
Bewatersmart.info

22. Smart Irrigation