Irrigation zone running even though system is OFF

[scubawva]

Hoping I can get help in a Sat morning. I’m a new tenant in a home that owner is out of town and unavailable.
Cottage home in Monarch Grove.
Although the system is OFF zone 3 has been running since 4pm yesterday. Discovered this morning.
When running the zones manually zone 3 continues to run while 1, 2 or 4 are selected. It never stops, the others do.

I can’t find anything in electric panel that controls sprinkler system, neither garage breaker does.

Any names & numbers on who I can call?

Can irrigation water be turned off while leaving house water running? I don’t easily see a shut off valve.

Thanks

[pacjag]

Each zone is controlled by an electric valve and the valve for that zone is stuck open. It will likely need to be replaced. The house water and irrigation water are separate and there should be two separate valves in the front yard. You should be able to open the covers for those and turn them each off to see which is the irrigation valve (it should have purple colored piping going from the valve towards the house, denoting it is non-potable water). Just leave that one off until a repair person can come out.

[scubawva]

Thanks. I lifted the one black cover I coukd find. It’s in the zone 3 so it’s flooded - can’t see a thing. Any suggestions on who I can call ? I am bailing the water. Much appreciated

[Topspinmo]

Be nice to which brand you system has? But, this video explains majority of them. Most likely the valve stuck open. As shown in video you can just replace the guts and and not have to cut irrigation pipes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-SzmZZ2VUk

[Topspinmo]

Thanks. I lifted the one black cover I coukd find. It’s in the zone 3 so it’s flooded - can’t see a thing. Any suggestions on who I can call ? I am bailing the water. Much appreciated


Hopefully the water leak in the box coming for zone 3 valve and not the PVC piping. You should been able to see the water swirling were leak at?

[Topspinmo]

Hopefully the water leak in the box coming for zone 3 valve and not the PVC piping. You should been able to see the water swirling were leak at?

If you are renter call owner see who he want to call for the repair. If I was renter that what I would do. It’s his responsibility being owner of property. If he unavailable I would just shut irrigation off using the control panel and manual valve before it enters the control box where the zone valves are till I could contact him?

[retiredguy123]

I would suggest that you open the white electric box in the garage and unplug the controller. There should be a transformer plugged in at the bottom of the electric box. Although, I don't know if this will solve your problem.

[scubawva]

Thanks all
The system has already been unplugged, still running

The owner unavailable, normally they would be my first call

A neighbor trying to help

I’m happy to just turn off water & wait for owner to handle, that was my initial question. Problem is we can’t find how to do that for irrigation only and leave house running.

Neighbor working in it, hopefully he can get irrigation water off

Keep suggestions coming. If anyone knows an irrigation guy I could contact please share that number

[MarshBendLover]

Would be interesting to see what problem is, but killing power would not stop water. Only turning water line off. Valve probably broken inside and allowing water to run free.

As a landlord you should be ready to be available 24/7 when you have a renter.
You have done what you can do.

Be thankful it's not your water bill:MOJE_whot:

[scubawva]

Water off! Found the box in ground and got to Cellinoud valve to stop. Had to bail water out of it - as luck goes both boxes in the zone that’s been running.

The owner is responsive, their regular irrigation guy hasn’t been which is why looking for new guy.

Now need good irrigation guy.

Much appreciated quick responses.

Lesson - learn where your sprinkler valve box is located before it’s flooded 🤪

[bagboy]

Water off! Found the box in ground and got to Cellinoud valve to stop. Had to bail water out of it - as luck goes both boxes in the zone that’s been running.

The owner is responsive, their regular irrigation guy hasn’t been which is why looking for new guy.

Now need good irrigation guy.

Much appreciated quick responses.

Lesson - learn where your sprinkler valve box is located before it’s flooded ������

Call Joe Tucker for irrigation repair. 352-430-5615

[bragones]

Solenoid valves screw into their respective sockets in the irrigation box. If the solenoid is slightly loose, meaning slightly unscrewed counterclockwise, the zone will run continuously. You might want to check to see if each solenoid is tightened. If the problem is a bad solenoid, its a pretty easy fix/replace. I have never used Joe Tucker but have read favorable reviews on him.

[scubawva]

Joe is booked for the month of June. Chuck Roast is going to help. Thanks again all.

[CarlR33]

I had that happen up north. The valve sticks open due to most likely dirt so the valve cannot shut its water off so the only way to whoa it down is turn the water off. You might get lucky and take one of the zone’s sprinkler heads off, run it for a few with that head off to suck the dirt out of the controller. If that don’t work it’s only four screws to take off and replace the guts or the controller. At least here they put the valve in a known box. Up north I had to locate them in the middle of the yard and not a fun project at all.

[scubawva]

Found water shut off. It’s in the yard about 7’ from street on lot line between neighbors.

Black box with 2 pink circles. One valve inside for each neighboring house. This is on opposite if house where black box with meter is, on same side as box with sprinkler system valves.

If only I had known! Neighbors didn’t either. Good thing to know before you need it.

Thanks again.

[CarlR33]

Found water shut off. It’s in the yard about 7’ from street on lot line between neighbors.

Black box with 2 pink circles. One valve inside for each neighboring house. This is on opposite if house where black box with meter is, on same side as box with sprinkler system valves.

If only I had known! Neighbors didn’t either. Good thing to know before you need it.

Thanks again.If like mine, each box is yours with two service valves one for house and other for sprinkler and does not share Service with the neighbors, just fyi.

[rustyp]

Joe is booked for the month of June. Chuck Roast is going to help. Thanks again all.

If Chuck fails try Charlie Horse.

[crash]

Thanks all
The system has already been unplugged, still running

The owner unavailable, normally they would be my first call

A neighbor trying to help

I’m happy to just turn off water & wait for owner to handle, that was my initial question. Problem is we can’t find how to do that for irrigation only and leave house running.

Neighbor working in it, hopefully he can get irrigation water off

Keep suggestions coming. If anyone knows an irrigation guy I could contact please share that number

You can manually shut the valve off. It is on the top of the valve and see it that stops the flow. When this happened to me I just shut it off in the box for the meter.

[Dilligas]

Hoping I can get help in a Sat morning. I’m a new tenant in a home that owner is out of town and unavailable.
Cottage home in Monarch Grove.
Although the system is OFF zone 3 has been running since 4pm yesterday. Discovered this morning.
When running the zones manually zone 3 continues to run while 1, 2 or 4 are selected. It never stops, the others do.

I can’t find anything in electric panel that controls sprinkler system, neither garage breaker does.

Any names & numbers on who I can call?

Can irrigation water be turned off while leaving house water running? I don’t easily see a shut off valve.

Thanks
Unplug the controller in the garage.

[asianthree]

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.

[bragones]

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.

[retiredguy123]

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.
FYI, $982 is about 138,000 gallons of irrigation water. It seems like the The Villages would have a way to monitor and shut off a customer before they use that much water.

[retiredguy123]

Joe is booked for the month of June. Chuck Roast is going to help. Thanks again all.
I have heard good things about Joe Tucker. But if he doesn't offer ongoing maintenance agreements and is available for emergency repairs, why would I ever call him? When you have a leak, you need it fixed.

[Bill14564]

FYI, $982 is about 138,000 gallons of irrigation water. It seems like the The Villages would have a way to monitor and shut off a customer before they use that much water.

There is no monitoring of water usage, only the one reading per month. At *that* point they will notify a customer but the damage is already done.

What you suggest would be possible with the AMI meters that the District recently rejected. Even then, there would need to be software to notice an anomaly and some policy for when water might be shut off to a customer.

[BobbyM46]

I’ve used Joe Tucker previously and very satisfied.

[jrref]

If that broken zone has been running all that time, no question you will be getting a very large irrigation water bill. When you complain to tell them what happened, they will tell you, you should have called to have them come out and turn off the water.

[LianneMigiano]

My Villager daughter had an out-of-state rental owner for a neighbor. They left the sprinkler OFF completely and the entire lawn dried up and became the object of neighborhood complaints. The owners were made to replace the entire lawn with new sod! I'm sure that was a very pricey lesson for them.

[cahvillage]

I had this same problem a couple of years ago...It turned out to be in the outside box with the purple cover that should be on the side of the house. That is the irrigation box and there are valves in there that the water can be turned off by turning the valve to the right. Hope this helps. The valve needs to be replaced.