A Georgia City's Tech Fix for Water Cost Savings

Route Fifty: Four years ago, irrigation in Roswell, Georgia, looked something like this: sprinklers across the city’s 900 acres of park land would run for 15 minutes, regardless of whether the grass was in need of water. Once or twice per week, staff members would visit each park to check saturation levels, according to Mark Holder, the city’s sports turf and parks coordinator. The system worked, but wasn’t particularly efficient.

In 2014, Holder came upon a better method: a friend working at the University of Georgia had been using UgMO, a wireless soil moisture monitoring system, to irrigate sports turf.

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