Turn off your sprinklers!

[TXNGL]

Originally Posted by Belle77

TXNGAL, I just drove by 2 houses w/ their sprinklers running in my neighborhood and thought of you. The one house often runs theirs, even in the winter. Ridiculous.

The ones I saw yesterday on my street are the same ones who run them all winter, as well. They also run them during torrential rains. I don't get it. If you don't care about water usage and the environment, I would think you'd at least care about your water bill. This is a nice neighborhood, but I don't think most people around here are sitting on zillions and zillions of dollars! We do happy dances during the rare times that it rains in the summer because then we don't have to water. Winter is usually great, we just make sure the foundation is getting enough water and let nature take care of the rest.

[momof2dfw]

Originally Posted by TXNGL

The ones I saw yesterday on my street are the same ones who run them all winter, as well. They also run them during torrential rains. I don't get it. If you don't care about water usage and the environment, I would think you'd at least care about your water bill. This is a nice neighborhood, but I don't think most people around here are sitting on zillions and zillions of dollars! We do happy dances during the rare times that it rains in the summer because then we don't have to water. Winter is usually great, we just make sure the foundation is getting enough water and let nature take care of the rest.

I don't get it either. It is ALWAYS the same handfull of houses that ALWAYS seem to water every single day be it pouring down buckets of rain days on end or freezing cold. I've cold the city on several before and they DO come out. Even in the summer I'll call if it is the same house watering every single day. That can actually kill your grass as the roots don't go down deep enough to protect themselves during a hard freeze. As I said, we had new sod put out and usually you are like crazy watering to keep it alive and get it going when you do that in the summer. Not this year, we didn't water it once as Mother Nature took care of it.

I did see the city stormwater management people in our neighborhood today and actually talked to them. I know that one what could be a leak from one property might be underground water (we have that around areas of Dallas and the metroplex). But they were keeping an eye on it as it can ice up and be a problem.