Story Title: Reticulation
Episode 4: WA's Great Gardens
Date: 24 October 2010
Presenter: Neville Passmore

If your reticulation systems are more than 5 years old, Neville features some innovative water efficient ideas for your home.

Neville's Tips and Facts

• A four station lockable outdoor controller will help you water parts of your garden which can be programmed. Use a system that has a rechargeable battery in case your power goes out.
• Underground irrigation is a smart idea for turf, as there is no pop up sprinklers to chew up with your lawn mower. Our landscape team use Netafim Anti-Siphon Techline which pushes water out of hi tech emitters.
• It is very likely that root intrusion would be a problem, where pipe is buried below ground (as opposed to below mulch). We install a Netafim Techfilter (which introduces a continuous but low dose of a root intrusion inhibitor called Treflan to prevent this.
• The end of the collector line has an automatic line-flushing valve, which flushes a couple of litres of water from the line each time it is pressurized. This flushes out any sediment or particulate material that might, otherwise clog emitters.
• We have a separate station for Garden beds and Shrub planted areas and the veggie and herb gardens have been set up with this Landline pipe, which can easily be pulled from the bed to allow cultivation between crops.
• All areas of drip have a vacuum release valve to let air into the system on shutdown rather than have it sucked in to the drippers, this way dirt won't clog the drippers.
• Shrub areas are all watered with 'Landline'. A few larger shrubs are to have supplementary watering with 8 litre/hour Asta dripper stakes. Because these are on stakes they tend to stay where they're put and, being above ground, you can actually see that they are working.
• All your reticulation needs are available from The Watershed Water Systems

Contact

The Watershed Water Systems
Unit 1/146 Great Eastern Hwy, Midland, Western Australia 6056
P: 08 9274 3232
F: 08 9274 3280
E: info@thewatershed.biz
www.thewatershed.biz