Irrigation
 

You must have a leak or your sprinklers are running way too long

We definitely paid for almost two months on our first bill due to the closing date of the sale vs the billing date for the property. So do be sure you check the actual usage days on that first bill.

We have a larger corner lot but not as large as yours. The last two months, being extremely dry, we used right at 20,000 gallons for irrigation. By comparison, in Dec, we used less than 10,000 gallons.

We had the same issue this past couple of months, my brother who is a plumber went and checked it out, and found out one of the toilets were running constantly that we were not a ware of and reset the sprinkler system timing, dropped water usage down from just over 32,000. down to 19,000 hopefully next month will be even better. So have someone check for running water inside your home, such as toilets, and take a look at your sprinkler timer and adjust accordingly.

Sprinkler system concern
 

I found this fellow named Brian who has his own sprinkler system business. Great guy! Have him check your system. Does not oversell, upsell, and explains what’s up with your system. Very reasonable. I used him several times over the last 18 months

His number is:

(352) 516-3041

Called the water department with a usage concern. Have a wedge lot as well. Very nice lady plugged details of the lot size into some type of water usage calculator & told me what is ‘normal’ for our lot. Just a suggestion for you!!

Do you have Zoysia grass or St. Augustine? Zoysia doesn't like a lot of water. Cut times down and water three times a week. If you are full time resident, cut system off during rainy season. St. Augustine is a weed - terrible lawn cover.

It’s possible. With the drought this spring, and regular rains only just starting, most people I know had to go to watering 3x a week just to keep their grass alive. We have a small lot but filled with new landscaping that has to be watered everyday the first two months to get it established. We used just under 10,000 gallons. Sounds like your grass area is 3x the size, so 30,000 is possible, but turn on your sprinklers and watch for a broken head just in case. My neighbor runs their irrigation a little less than us, and their statement showed using 79,000 gallons. They have no broken heads, or lines. Sounds like an error in the reading of the meter, since it’s done remotely.

out of curiosity what does 39000 gallons equate to Dollars?

$104, assuming it is not potable water.

Irrigation
 

When it is raining on a regular basis, irrigation usage will go down. Seems like the rainy season has begun.

There are a lot of factors regarding water usage in TV, mostly sun exposure, foliage vs grassed areas, type of grass, time of day sprinklers are on, amount and timing of fertilizer. etc We have a heavily shaded lot with St. Augustine grass and run ours every other day 15 minutes per zone in the grassy areas and 10 minutes every other day in the foliage area.Yard is great. In summer months we turn irrigation off and yard is great. Looks like we are now in rainy season.

Agree, 39,000 gallons is excessive.
 

Agree with those that indicate this is too much water usage. When we moved to TV we were getting usage like you indicated on a larger corner lot. I switched to WiFi controller, we use the Rachio controller, and it has significantly changed average usage with no discernable change in the look of the lawn. Our highest usage this year was in March (no rain for months) and we used 14,000. I highly recommend Rachio or bHyve type of controller. Plus you can control it from anywhere with your phone.

Should also mention that the Rachio controller can be connected to a Tempest weather station to provide specific rainfall at your location instead of using an aggregation of info from nearby stations. My tempest station works great with the Rachio. If interested, the Tempest weather station is also available on the Rachio website.

Good luck

its like 4 small swimming pools filled per month

It’s not normal.

My mowing guy, clipped the head off of one of my sprinklers and never told me. Sometime later, i manually ran the sprinkler heads (i do this every few months or so). The sprinkler with no head was spouting a 15 foot geyser in my back yard.

It is worth running a manual irrigation cycle occassionally.