Most regions in Australia are now facing water restriction measures of some level. Restrictions in some areas are stricter than others but the time has come where we all must face the fact that watering turf for leisure activities is a privilege and, as such, must be respected. We must find a better way of retaining our green turfed playing fields, parks and reserves, while not using the same quantities of our most precious resource – water.
It takes between nine and 15 megalitres of water per year, irrigating with sprinklers, to keep a hectare of turf grass green.
“By installing sub-surface drip irrigation into this same area and combined with good management practices, you can reduce this use to around five megalitres per year,” said Kathryn Eden from Greene Eden Watering Systems. “We have a school oval site that has used exactly that, and this usage has been during an extremely low rainfall year.
“We can explain how we can help your Council become a best practice irrigator of lawn, garden and sports turf. We can give you a list of people for whom work has been done – you can talk to them for yourself. You can also use wastewater and treated effluent through sub-surface drip irrigation systems without any concerns about public safety.”
She said that Whyalla City Council and other Councils and schools, most especially in the arid areas of South Australia, have realised that they can turn parched ovals into sportsfields of which they can be proud – but they’re not using any more water – in fact they’re using less and in some instances, plumbing into their treated effluent or stormwater resources to save even more.
“It’s no use ignoring the fact that sprinklers are fast becoming the politically incorrect method of irrigating and there will come a time when they will not be allowed to be used.”
For further information contact Greene Eden Watering Systems on (08) 8262 8480.
*Copy supplied by Greene Eden Watering Systems
