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Water Conservation on Large
Landscape Sites
2004 NEWS: LADWP's
Water Conservation staff completed a pilot water conservation program
targeting water use on large landscapes, the results of which have been
eagerly anticipated by water agencies throughout California. Prior pilot
programs have targeted single-family sites. The pilot project was
comprised of the installation, monitoring, and analysis of two types of
weather sensitive irrigation control technology at 25 sites (83 acres)
including parks/commercial sites/homeowners associations over a period
of two and a half years. The analysis found that significant water
savings potential exists in typical large landscape sites, and that
weather sensitive irrigation controllers reduce consumption by as much
as 28 percent. These results will be used in the development of an
incentive program to promote landscape water-use efficiency.
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