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Old 08-13-2011, 01:23 PM
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I just called North Sumter water yesterday. Found out that we use about !.000 gallons/hour on our 4 zone lawn. Multiply that by 2 hours of irrigation each time. and roughly we would use 8,000 gallons in one month. Check your bill to see the cost, do a little math and you can come up with an approximate cost of each irrigation. Ours amounts to about $3.30+ for each irrigation. Pays to turn it off when it rains.
Don't you have a sensor on your irrigation system?