[Arid_gardener] Irrigation

[Olin Miller]

Flood irrigation is usually available to residents within the district 
serviced by the Salt River Project.  If you pay your electricity bill to 
the SRP you can probably also get SRP irrigation water, usually monthly 
during the winter months and twice monthly in the summer.  If you pay 
your electricity bill to the City of Chandler you are probably not in 
the SRP district and SRP water would not be available to you.  Call the 
SRP to find out.  I would also expect that flood irrigation using 
Chandler's potable drinking water would be prohibitively expensive.

"The opinions or statements expressed herein are my own and should not 
be taken as a position, opinion, or endorsement of the Maricopa Master 
Gardener Association or of the University of Arizona."

Olin Miller
Master Gardener Volunteer, Maricopa County AZ
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Kelly Conroy" 
<kconroy at indigopartners.net>
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2006 11:35 AM
> I'm not sure if you guys can help me.  I have a home in Chandler that 
> was built around 1960.  I have sprinkler irrigation which barely ever 
> works.  I just noticed that the person about 8 houses down has a flood 
> irrigation system.  Isn't a flood irrigation navigated and installed 
> by the city?  I'm just curious if anyone knows if a person can install 
> their own flood irrigation system or if it would, in fact, have to 
> have been provided by Chandler?  I'd prefer the once a week flood 
> irrigation.  Is it unusual for one house on a block to have this?  Is 
> it possible that the whole neighborhood, at one point, had flood 
> irrigation and, if so, wouldn't it seem possible that there is a hook 
> up for such a system from years gone by?  (I, personally, have never 
> seen one in my year, but maybe it's buried?
> What city department would I ask about this?  City of Chandler Water?