David E. Ross wrote:
On 5/18/2015 6:00 PM, songbird wrote [in part]:
as for your rant, i suspect they stagger watering days to keep the
load on the overall system more balanced.

No. Everyone in the community now irrigates on Mondays and Thursdays.

i read your other post, so while it may not make sense
in some ways it does make sense for the enforcement
aspect. consider in the age of the cellphone that
takes pictures. if the city had to deal with every
nosy neighbor sending in pictures of the "deviants"
then it would be more work to deal with those complaints
(correcting them).


Thousand Oaks (a neighboring city) proposed specific days for irrigating
gardens, with odd addresses on certain days and even addresses on other
days. The Public Works staff, however, pointed out that if everyone ran
their sprinklers on their permitted days before 9:00am (beyond that time
irrigating was already prohibited), there would not be enough pressure
in the mains during those times to support fire-fighting. In some parts
of Los Angeles, having alternating days for irrigating gardens resulted
in aged mains rupturing, wasting thousands or even millions of gallons
of water.

By the way, see my "Gardening During a Drought" at
http://www.rossde.com/garden/drought.html.

i did. while most of it i agree with you don't say much
about rainwater capture/storage, landscaping to retain water
(slow, spread, soak) and wind breaks aren't really mentioned
either.

where you mention mulch it is to say enough to cover the
soil which is better than nothing, but beyond that a deeper
mulch can be much better, especially if you have drip
irrigation below it.


songbird