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Eden Prairie Townhouse Property Saves $3000 In A Year By Replacing Their Lawn Sprinkler Controller!

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

That’s right, and Eden Prairie townhouse property saved a whole lot of water and cash by replacing their old lawn sprinkler controller. If you have a large property with a sprinkler system, townhouse property, condominium property, retirement facility, church, school, park, office, shopping center, warehouse, strip mall, or large residence; you too can save water and money.

Look at the results we had last year at one large Eden Prairie townhouse property. In 2008 we had an old time based controller. In 2009 we replaced it with the Weathermatic Smartline controller that adjusts with the weather and look at the results!

Water Usage Water Cost

2008                  3,893,600  Gallons Used                         $10,318.04 Spent

2009                   2,711,500   Gallons Used                           $7,185.48 Spent

Savings             1,182,100   Gallons Saved                           $3,132.57 Saved

Eden Prairie water cost $2.65 per 1000 gallons.

This is amazing, isn’t it! Look at the conservation! In one year over a million gallons and over $3,000 was saved! In ten years this one site will still be green and conserve over ten million gallons of water. In ten years as much as $30,000 will saved by using a modern controller.

This site is as green as ever, and I would say the landscape and lawn is even healthier. Now just the right amount of water is being distributed at just the right time. No more wasteful over watering and no more under watering. The system adjusts with the weather everyday creating an automatic lawn sprinkler system.

If you have a large irrigation system or even if your home has a sprinkler system you need to look at replacing your old controller with one of these new smart controllers. Just think if we all replaced our old water wasting controllers how much water could be conserved statewide.

Do your part, conserve water and fight higher water rates by giving us a call to replace that old water wasting controller.

Save Water and Money While Going Green

Monday, April 6th, 2009

Every January I (Rob Cooper) attend the Minnesota Nursery and Landscape Association Convention held in Minneapolis. This year’s presentation by Doug Bennett, the conservation manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, stunned me.

First, Doug’s graphs revealed the stark increase in water prices in only a decade. Las Vegas now has five different graduated water prices ranging from $2.00/1000 gallons to $5.00/1000 gallons. The increase ranged from 200% to 500%. As water becomes more precious, many cities will increase their pricing to encourage conservation.

Secondly, based on a survey taken in Las Vegas, most people believe their showers consume the largest amount of water. For people in Las Vegas, sprinkler usage was 80%, whereas the shower only used 5% of the water. Research on water usage was done in 12 cities across the USA.  Here’s what they found: Without exception the largest household usage of water is the lawn sprinkler system!

These statistics, caused me to consider the following questions:

  1. Do our customers know their sprinkler system is the largest user of water in their household?
  2. Have we encouraged our customers enough to begin saving water now?
  3. Because sprinklers use the most water, how much money could our customers save with some of the new products available for irrigation systems?

I decided to check my own family’s water usage:

% water used by $cost for
Year sprinkler system water bill
2007 67% $725.00
2008 60% $525.00

I saved $200.00! – a 27% decrease in my water bill!
I had decreased our sprinkler water usage by 7%.
The two summers had similar weather patterns and, my lawn looked better than ever!

What had I done differently?
In 2007 I had a traditional time based controller run my system. I adjusted the controller three times that year; once for spring, once for summer and again for the fall. In 2008 I installed a smart controller that adjusts with the weather every day. This single change made the difference!

To learn more about Smart Controllers contact us now.