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Originally Posted by Hyacinth Bucket
Hi Everyone,
We just received our first water bill - we used 30,000 gallons of water for irrigation for our lawn. We should have only used 4,000 gallons.
We bought a resale.
The irrigation system was set by who ever in The Villages has this responsibility, previous owners assumed it was set properly and never checked out their water bill. They felt that the irrigation system was set properly.
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Not sure of the size of you home but hope this helps..
We bought our Gardenia new 3+ years ago south of 466. After closing the installer of the irrigation (Tri County Landscape) stopped to check the system and show us how to change the times for the 6 zones.
Winter requires less water as most vegetation is dormant and therefore 15 minutes per zone is adequate once per week. We average 6500 gal. per month (winter). During growing season the zones are reset to 40 - 45 minutes and useage obviously increases.
We had Tri County return for service (2 years ago) as a lightning strike in the area ruined the circuit board in the timer. We also recently had one of the many irrigation installer/service companies available in the area, adjust and replace heads broken by our lawn service. System does require adjustments and periodic checks that the homeowner can do to check proper spray patterns and zone times.
Hope this helps.