- Author: Dustin Blakey
With irrigation season now here, it's a good idea to give a sprinkler system a thorough inspection. We've just reviewed the system here at the garden to make sure it's operational.
While running and checking all the parts is a good idea, you have to know where all those parts may be! It's common in Owens Valley to have "improvised" irrigation that years down the road makes little sense, even if during installation it seemed like a perfectly logical thing to do.
It a very good idea to document your system. Make notes about how it all works, where things are, settings that work, and parts used. We've just completed this task at the garden and have placed our notes here for posterity. Maybe someday in the distant future a gardener will wonder what was going on. Perhaps this will help, if there is still an internet!
Irrigation Map Document
ESVC Irrigation System Overview