The City of Santa Clarita was recently recognized for its water efficiency practices.
Water Efficiency, a nation-wide journal for professional water managers, recently recognized the City of Santa Clarita for its water conservation practices and for advocating the use of automated, weather-tuned irrigation controllers to manage the City’s Landscape Maintenance Division (LMD) operations. In the July/August 2010 edition, Water Efficiency identified Santa Clarita’s program to replace 430 City-wide obsolete irrigation controllers as the “world’s largest smart water management system ever installed anywhere.
The City of Santa Clarita is responsible for maintaining over 700 acres of landscaping.
The City’s LMD operation is responsible for maintaining more than 700 acres of landscaping throughout 40 individual landscape zones throughout the community. As such, the effective management of water usage is and will continue to be a top priority for the City. To date, staff has replaced 103 existing irrigation controllers with an additional 63 devices scheduled to be replaced before the end of this summer. Smart irrigation controllers represent the foundation of Santa Clarita’s LMD water management program and when fully phased in will reduce the City’s LMD irrigation water usage by approximately 180 million gallons each year.
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