Creative Irrigation Engineering Solutions!

Here is a project we recently finished.

The home owners have a swimming pool in their back yard.   Over the winter, the pipes underneath the concrete burst.   As opposed to the costly price of tearing the entire pool out,  the home owners chose to fill the pool in with soil and create a lawn area with a small shrub bed.

Dripline Layout

The owners asked us to come up with an irrigation solution for the new landscape.   We had to work with what we had, so we connected our mainline to the fill valve (used to fill up the pool), then ran that to our control valve and ran emitter dripline 12" on center throughout the pool area.



The dripline layout picture was found on the Netafim website.  Netafim is a major manufacture of drip irrigation products.
http://www.netafimusa.com/landscape

Dripline is commonly used in shrub beds.  It is a form of low volume irrigation that places water directly to the base of the plant.   There are emitters evenly spaced throughout the drip tube that emit water slowly.
Dripline can also be used to water lawn areas as long as it's spaced 12" throughout the area where lawn is being installed in a grid like fashion.  Shrub beds generally have 18" spacing as you try to space your emitters so they are next to the plants so the roots can grab the water coming through the emitter.

Hunter SVC Controller

The source of the water was a 3/8" pipe running from the pump house to the pool.  We bushingd' up to 1/2" and ran that to our valve.

The valve was another challenge we faced.  There was no electrical power sources near the pool and we couldn't run wire from the valve to the shed because of the concrete around the pool.    Our solution was installing a Hunter SVC battery powered controller.  One 9 volt battery should run the system for the entire season!

So as long as you have a water source... we can irrigate it!

The Hunter SVC Controller picture was found on their website.  Here's the link!

http://www.hunterindustries.com/

The end result is a "green pool" if you will.  An area to enjoy a summer breeze and a cold drink!

Contact OLM and let us come up with creative irrigation solutions for you!

253-261-2700

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Thanks for reading the blog!
Derrik Tribble
The Lawn Psychologist