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Originally Posted by mikeod
I hope the district monitors by the amount of water used. My area of TV has a lot of clay under the surface, so water tends to run off or pool. As a result, a lot of my zoysia is infested with torpedo grass.Torpedo grass loves wet conditions, and the clay soil creates just that situation with normal watering. After discussing this with my lawn maintenance company, their suggestion was to divide my sprinkler times by 4 or 5 and water four days a week at the reduced times. So, my system may be running on an "off" day but my total water use will actually be less than if I ran it twice a week at the regular run times per zone.
They will also be spraying an herbicide that may control the torpedo grass. It will discolor the zoysia but it should recover in a few weeks.
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Mike - Like most government bodies they care more about follow what's written on the page instead of the real intent. Of course the most important thing is the TOTAL gallons of water used. That makes sense. But try telling that to any bureaucrat (including many on this board!). If I were in charge I wouldn't care about WHEN you watered only the amount. But rules being rules we're not allowed to alter them. If someone would like to use real logic to debate this I'm all ears. But don't give me "I follow rules and so should you". They have our total gallon usage at their fingertips and they could easily ID any flagrant abusers. (Yes, I know that you could have a leaky broken pipe but you could get one warning to check and fix that - no?).