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Use Rain Monitors In Your Yard To Prevent Water Waste And Save Money
August 3rd, 2009 categories: General
There are 32 million acres of ”lawn” nationwide — enough to blanket New York in its entirety. It’s no wonder that lawns have become the most irrigated crop in the country.
It’s estimated that one-third of residential water use is directed to front and back yards, illustrating how watering a lawn can be expensive to both homeowners and to the environment.
Reducing these costs can be simple, however. All it takes is a working a rain-monitoring device. Rain monitors are basic hardware that typically install between a lawn’s sprinkler heads and its water source.
Using a built-in reservoir, the devices collect and measure natural rainfall, using the levels to determine whether the sprinkler system should be engaged on a given day. With one particular, low-tech model
If you’ve ever watched your lawn get watered through a rainstorm, you can understand the value of a device like this.
Rain-monitoring devices range in cost from $12 to several hundred dollars with the low-tech model referenced above
Many lawn care experts recommend 1 inch of water per week.
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