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Originally Posted by rsmurano
What the villages should do is to tell the people in each district to run their sprinklers on a specific day and there will be no cost of doing this. The system knows how much water you use to water your lawn every day so it would be easy for them to credit you for 1 day. The major benefits would be: people’s lawns might look better, and that would draw down the water more than having TV water specific areas for 6 hours a day
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The system does not know how much water you use to water your lawn every day. All the system knows is how much water you used in each month for as long as you owned the home. The system doesn't know how many days you watered or how long your system ran on each of those days. The calculations for this would be horrendous and there would likely be hundreds of homeowners who didn't agree with the results.
Secondly, saturating your own lawn is not what you want to do before a heavy rain event. You want your lawn to be able to absorb some of the water to reduce standing water and runoff damage. If your lawn is saturated at the beginning of the event then everything that falls becomes runoff. Not only could this potentially damage your property but it also means more water into the storm drains which raises the ponds faster.
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Water pressure would also make it more difficult to calculate how much water a homeowner uses in a day. If everyone turned on their irrigation at the same time the water pressure would drop and you would use less than you use under normal conditions. This would make it even more difficult to estimate how much to discount a bill.
Also, some irrigation systems are connected to potable water and not pond water. This is common above 466 but might occur in other pockets too. Running these systems would not help the ponds at all. Expecting Villagers to know which system they are on is unrealistic.