Soil-moisture sensor users expect to cut about 10 percent of their typical water use, according to an article in The New York Times. Depending on water rates, a new system could pay for itself in the first year.
Shawn Emerson, the superintendent at Desert Mountain Golf Club in Scottsdale, Ariz., said the club would save a total of more than 100 million gallons of effluent water, or an average of between 18 million and 20 million gallons per course for the year or roughly $130,000 in savings based on current prices. Desert Mountain has six courses with 500 acres of turf.
For the full article, visit The New York Times' Web site.
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