Irrigation Evaluation

This page lists references for the landscape professional interested in learning how to evaluate residential and commercial landscape irrigation systems.   They  have been developed by UF/IFAS County Extension agents with the assistance of the USDA/NRCS and its Mobil Irrigation Laboratory.  

Many of these documents are in Adobe Acrobat reader - click here if you need to download the free reader form the Adobe website:

• Landscape Irrigation Audit Evaluation Workshop:

• for a copy of the Workbook [Adobe pdf], click here.

• for a list of the Tool Kit contents and cost estimates [Adobe pdf], click here.

• Ornamental Outlook Article, Irrigation Consultation.   December 2005 

• Bargar, Janet,  Culbert, Daniel F., and Holzworth, Elwood.  "Landscape Irrigation Evaluation as a Water Conservation Practice."  Lake Alfred: Proceedings of the Florida State Horticultural Society [Landscape & Garden Section]  Vol. 117: pp.249-253,  2004.   FSHS article link.

•   List of Florida MILs:  Click here to download directory:   in Word 

        Links to Florida MIL webpages: 

          Manatee County (Palmetto) FL Water Conservation Program

         MIL Success Stories: Lee County MIL  Broward MIL 

 

• Other References & Links: 

Landscape and Turf Irrigation Auditing: A Mobile Laboratory Approach for Small Communities [Describes a demonstration project conducted in Douglas Douglas County, Georgia] University of Georgia Bulletin 1253,  August, 2004. http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubcd/B1253.htm#Summary

Pond Appeal: A website for managing Stormwater Ponds:  This site lists presentations and resources from a series on workshops held in the Treasure Coast region:  Bargar, J. and Culbert, D.  Pond Appeal website.  Vero Beach: UF/IFAS Indian River Extension Service, 2/06. http://pond.ifas.ufl.edu/ 

South Florida Water Management District:  January 2004 MIL fact sheet  http://www.sfwmd.gov/images/pdfs/splash/spl_mobile_irrig.pdf 

Southwest Florida Water Management District:   offers downloadable files and programs that can help improve irrigation system.  A water audit is an accounting procedure that accurately determines the amount of UAW (water that for whatever reason, "disappears" in a water distribution system).  While the Urban Mobile Lab does not provide leak detection services directly to the general public, it can assist homeowners in reducing the amount of water used for lawn irrigation.   For further information go to the SWFMD Water Audit page.   

Water, Water, Everywhere? A Drought/Water Conservation Program for Homeowners, Master Gardeners, and Extension Agents. This is a set of three training units that cover many issues related to drought and water conservation. http://disaster.ifas.ufl.edu/wwe.htm 

Please let me know if there are other useful tools or references that can be used to help evaluate landscape irrigation - I will be happy to post them!

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