Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
ChoppinDs40 said:
Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
I really hope we get some rain some but, all the info I am seeing from NWS point to this continuing on.planoaggie123 said:
I am expecting nearly 30K - 35K this month....part of that is "recovery" watering from under-watering previously. Hoping in about 4 weeks to reduce the water lengths by a substantial amount....
Red Pear DFW Luke said:ChoppinDs40 said:
Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
I'll see your 20,000 gallons and raise you to 63,000 gallons and a $750 water bill. How the hell did we even use that much water.
It's not hard to get to 30,000 gallons if you're watering 1/4 an acre twice a week. If someone is watering every day, or every other day I can see how they'd use 60k+ChoppinDs40 said:Red Pear DFW Luke said:ChoppinDs40 said:
Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
I'll see your 20,000 gallons and raise you to 63,000 gallons and a $750 water bill. How the hell did we even use that much water.
Uhh, that's got to be a misreading unless you're watering an acre to look like a rainforest and filled a pool.
Cue the Vivaldi!nai06 said:
I am shocked at y'all's numbers. My highest reading in the last year was 20,000 gallons because I had a leak in my outdoor cabana from the winter storm that I didn't catch right away.
I just got my latest bill in and I'm up to 6000 gallons which I've attributed to having to fill my pool a little more often this summer.
yeah... 30k gallons isn't 63k.Prince_Ahmed said:It's not hard to get to 30,000 gallons if you're watering 1/4 an acre twice a week. If someone is watering every day, or every other day I can see how they'd use 60k+ChoppinDs40 said:Red Pear DFW Luke said:ChoppinDs40 said:
Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
I'll see your 20,000 gallons and raise you to 63,000 gallons and a $750 water bill. How the hell did we even use that much water.
Uhh, that's got to be a misreading unless you're watering an acre to look like a rainforest and filled a pool.
As the man with 63,000 usage and a Highland Built Home - my yards were not even close to super lush or green. Still looks like it's bone dry and everything is dying.ChoppinDs40 said:yeah... 30k gallons isn't 63k.Prince_Ahmed said:It's not hard to get to 30,000 gallons if you're watering 1/4 an acre twice a week. If someone is watering every day, or every other day I can see how they'd use 60k+ChoppinDs40 said:Red Pear DFW Luke said:ChoppinDs40 said:
Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
I'll see your 20,000 gallons and raise you to 63,000 gallons and a $750 water bill. How the hell did we even use that much water.
Uhh, that's got to be a misreading unless you're watering an acre to look like a rainforest and filled a pool.
I water my grass twice a week and run the zones twice each time, so call it 4x. I also do a 45minute tree bubbler and 45 minute foundation drip.
My Rainbird controller "adjusts" to weather conditions... it's been running 200% of the standard run times so about 4 hours, twice per week on the standard cycle. Granted, these newer homes use the drip lines for beds and the smaller rotors and pop-ups so they're pretty efficient. No Hunter PGP rotors that throw serious water.
But yeah, every day waterer is going to have a super lush green yard and could maybe hit 45k+... that's still an ass-ton of water.
But how often are you watering? When's the last time you measured how much water they put out (inches per cycle)? That's the question - not how dead your grass is.Red Pear DFW Luke said:As the man with 63,000 usage and a Highland Built Home - my yards were not even close to super lush or green. Still looks like it's bone dry and everything is dying.ChoppinDs40 said:yeah... 30k gallons isn't 63k.Prince_Ahmed said:It's not hard to get to 30,000 gallons if you're watering 1/4 an acre twice a week. If someone is watering every day, or every other day I can see how they'd use 60k+ChoppinDs40 said:Red Pear DFW Luke said:ChoppinDs40 said:
Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
I'll see your 20,000 gallons and raise you to 63,000 gallons and a $750 water bill. How the hell did we even use that much water.
Uhh, that's got to be a misreading unless you're watering an acre to look like a rainforest and filled a pool.
I water my grass twice a week and run the zones twice each time, so call it 4x. I also do a 45minute tree bubbler and 45 minute foundation drip.
My Rainbird controller "adjusts" to weather conditions... it's been running 200% of the standard run times so about 4 hours, twice per week on the standard cycle. Granted, these newer homes use the drip lines for beds and the smaller rotors and pop-ups so they're pretty efficient. No Hunter PGP rotors that throw serious water.
But yeah, every day waterer is going to have a super lush green yard and could maybe hit 45k+... that's still an ass-ton of water.
I guess my AGRO302 with Dubel paid offPrince_Ahmed said:But how often are you watering? When's the last time you measured how much water they put out (inches per cycle)? That's the question - not how dead your grass is.Red Pear DFW Luke said:As the man with 63,000 usage and a Highland Built Home - my yards were not even close to super lush or green. Still looks like it's bone dry and everything is dying.ChoppinDs40 said:yeah... 30k gallons isn't 63k.Prince_Ahmed said:It's not hard to get to 30,000 gallons if you're watering 1/4 an acre twice a week. If someone is watering every day, or every other day I can see how they'd use 60k+ChoppinDs40 said:Red Pear DFW Luke said:ChoppinDs40 said:
Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
I'll see your 20,000 gallons and raise you to 63,000 gallons and a $750 water bill. How the hell did we even use that much water.
Uhh, that's got to be a misreading unless you're watering an acre to look like a rainforest and filled a pool.
I water my grass twice a week and run the zones twice each time, so call it 4x. I also do a 45minute tree bubbler and 45 minute foundation drip.
My Rainbird controller "adjusts" to weather conditions... it's been running 200% of the standard run times so about 4 hours, twice per week on the standard cycle. Granted, these newer homes use the drip lines for beds and the smaller rotors and pop-ups so they're pretty efficient. No Hunter PGP rotors that throw serious water.
But yeah, every day waterer is going to have a super lush green yard and could maybe hit 45k+... that's still an ass-ton of water.
But to the other poster, an every day waterer is going to use 45k gallons? Yes that's an ass-ton of water, but if you're watering a half inch per cycle, that's about 3,400 gallons of water per cycle on a quarter acre yard. If you water every other day, that's 50,000 gallons/month. Five days a week would be almost 74,000 gallons of water a month. Water an inch per cycle and the numbers double.
Yes these are crazy numbers, but in the suburbs where people know nothing about lawn maintenance and let tons of it evaporate in this heat, or dump it all at once in hour-long cycles and let it run off.... it's not uncommon to hit those numbers.
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twice a week, about 25 mins each cycle. I've got so many zone that it's about 2 hours between each zone. Start at 430AM and 630AM. I should probably do that even earlier right now with the sun already blasting at 8am. I think the 630AM run is getting pushed back much farther right now.
I assume you've checked your meter with everything off to see if it's still turning?ChoppinDs40 said:I guess my AGRO302 with Dubel paid offPrince_Ahmed said:But how often are you watering? When's the last time you measured how much water they put out (inches per cycle)? That's the question - not how dead your grass is.Red Pear DFW Luke said:As the man with 63,000 usage and a Highland Built Home - my yards were not even close to super lush or green. Still looks like it's bone dry and everything is dying.ChoppinDs40 said:yeah... 30k gallons isn't 63k.Prince_Ahmed said:It's not hard to get to 30,000 gallons if you're watering 1/4 an acre twice a week. If someone is watering every day, or every other day I can see how they'd use 60k+ChoppinDs40 said:Red Pear DFW Luke said:ChoppinDs40 said:
Celina is worse than Prosper actually.
I'll see your 20,000 gallons and raise you to 63,000 gallons and a $750 water bill. How the hell did we even use that much water.
Uhh, that's got to be a misreading unless you're watering an acre to look like a rainforest and filled a pool.
I water my grass twice a week and run the zones twice each time, so call it 4x. I also do a 45minute tree bubbler and 45 minute foundation drip.
My Rainbird controller "adjusts" to weather conditions... it's been running 200% of the standard run times so about 4 hours, twice per week on the standard cycle. Granted, these newer homes use the drip lines for beds and the smaller rotors and pop-ups so they're pretty efficient. No Hunter PGP rotors that throw serious water.
But yeah, every day waterer is going to have a super lush green yard and could maybe hit 45k+... that's still an ass-ton of water.
But to the other poster, an every day waterer is going to use 45k gallons? Yes that's an ass-ton of water, but if you're watering a half inch per cycle, that's about 3,400 gallons of water per cycle on a quarter acre yard. If you water every other day, that's 50,000 gallons/month. Five days a week would be almost 74,000 gallons of water a month. Water an inch per cycle and the numbers double.
Yes these are crazy numbers, but in the suburbs where people know nothing about lawn maintenance and let tons of it evaporate in this heat, or dump it all at once in hour-long cycles and let it run off.... it's not uncommon to hit those numbers.
twice a week, about 25 mins each cycle. I've got so many zone that it's about 2 hours between each zone. Start at 430AM and 630AM. I should probably do that even earlier right now with the sun already blasting at 8am. I think the 630AM run is getting pushed back much farther right now.
I've got 12 zones including a foundation drip and tree bubblers. So of the 10, that's 6 pop-ups, 2 rotors, 2 drips for beds/sidewalk grass. My Friday scheduled run is going to do 2hours 41 mins... twice. That's 11 mins on pop-ups, 24 on rotors, 16 on sidewalk drip, 31 on flowerbed drip (probably an overkill since most my annuals are now dead).PlanoAg98 said:Quote:
twice a week, about 25 mins each cycle. I've got so many zone that it's about 2 hours between each zone. Start at 430AM and 630AM. I should probably do that even earlier right now with the sun already blasting at 8am. I think the 630AM run is getting pushed back much farther right now.
Do you think we 25 minutes/zone time 2 cycles?
We are all in the same drought. I have 10 zones which would be 250 minutes (> 4hours) per cycle. I currently have it set at 10 minutes/zone and only 1 cycle. That's 1h 40m of watering and I start at 4am. I start at 4am as I have 3 zones of drip irrigation going around the house for 30 minutes each at 6a, 7a, & 8a.
I want to say 2016 or 2011 was the worst in recent memory. Lewisville lake was lower than I've ever seen. Right now it ain't bad.1997aggies said:
I currently live in Argyle, TX. This is the worst drought I have seen in years. Please God give us rain!!!
The worst part is Anna, Gunter, Celina, and lots of these North Collin County cities are woefully unprepared for all the exploding growth and the underinvestment (prior to it happening or in it's early stages) to prepare ahead of time. They will all be reactive vs proactive and it's going to cause significant growing pains.ChoppinDs40 said:
Gunter is out of water.
mosdefn14 said:
So let's tell people not to run the dishwasher (at like 3 gallons a cycle, a full days worth) and instead have them hand wash at 2 gallons a minute each meal?
This. All these little towns have had explosive (relatively) growth and have done little to nothing to expand infrastructure. Yes, this summer is hot and dry, but the "drought" is nothing like some we have had in the past. But back then these little towns weren't really growing.Red Pear DFW Luke said:The worst part is Anna, Gunter, Celina, and lots of these North Collin County cities are woefully unprepared for all the exploding growth and the underinvestment (prior to it happening or in it's early stages) to prepare ahead of time. They will all be reactive vs proactive and it's going to cause significant growing pains.ChoppinDs40 said:
Gunter is out of water.