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Old 05-04-2025, 08:03 AM
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Originally Posted by asianthree View Post
This happened to our irrigation but all zones were running. Lighting hit a home 5 houses down. Traveling through the ground to our irrigation and fried the system. It was July 4th.

UNPLUG nor SHUTTING Down will turn off the system. We had to have the water shut off at the ground box. We were on VaCa and a neighbor stopped the third CC car to inform them the irrigation had been running for 7 hours.
Unfortunately due to 8 zones and lack of information on how to get water turned off, our irrigation bill was $982.
OUCH! Are you in an area like Marion County where they use potable water for irrigation hence irrigation and sewer bills tend to be much higher than areas like Sumter where there's a separate non potable water box/bill for irrigation.