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The west coast is experiencing record heat and drought!


yachtingone

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I found this link that is riveting about our record high temps and drought the whole west coast states are dealing with!

http://www.weatherwest.com/

It is totally possible that very large cities could run out of water! The Colorado River system, which So Cal depends on is critically low. All dams are at least bellow 50% of capacity.

Because of record heat water for our lawns is being used in record amounts. It's time to start thinking that lawns in a desert environment that we live should be outlawed all together. Schools, parks & golf course should be where the only grass is grown here.

The farmers who are hurting for a lack of water would benefit from lawns going away! I personally hate the sounds of lawns being maintained.

Do you take this condition seriously?

Randy

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Yet, it is the opposite in the South. Coolest summer I ever remember. Now as much rain as our record year last year, but more than normal. This being just 3 years away from an all time record drought. I want to say, for whatever reason, what an odd world we live in, but I am really not sure it it is that, or that fact that we are so much more aware on a micro scale of what is happening.

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The only good news on the drought in California is they are catching tuna off the coast of Santa Barbara, much further north than normal due to warmer water. This suggests we are setting up for a significant El Nino next winter in which case we should see a warmer but much, much wetter winter here in California. I certainly hope so.

patrick

Bonita, California (San Diego)

Zone 10B

10 Year Low of 29 degrees

6 Miles from San Diego Bay

Mild winters, somewhat warm summers

10 Miles North of Mexico/USA Border

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I'm a fan of my small lawn, but continue to shrink it in favor of more drought tolerant landscaping. 90% of my 1/3 acre is mulched. I have been thinking of going artificial given how nice looking those options are getting. However, there's a ton of water waste going on, and families should not be the first to suffer IMO. Golf courses, for example, should be the first place irrigation is either shut down or used to fund source development. What a vast expanse of wastefulness that is, just so rich old guys can smack a little white ball around. Let's get real and really jack up rates on gratuitous wastefulness like that, and hopefully we can channel those funds into more water sources/de-salination plants/etc.

Ben Rogers

On the border of Concord & Clayton in the East Bay hills - Elev 387 ft 37.95 °N, 121.94 °W

My back yard weather station: http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/hdfForecast?query=37.954%2C-121.945&sp=KCACONCO37

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EL NINO

TO THE RESCUE!

Super Kid!

Flooding dried lakes in a single, er, well, you know . . .

I hope.

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Do you take this condition seriously?

You should rephrase that; Serious? Yes. Worried? No. Weather's like the stock market.

 

 

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Agree, extensive lawns in dry climates are a massive waste of both money and water resources. Explained by a teacher years ago, if the lawn area of any given residence is mostly un-used on a regular basis, it is wasted space.

As for El Nino, don't count on what might occur this winter to break the drought.. a weak to marginally moderate event is currently being forecasted.. The odds for the "Super" event touted earlier this year are next to none. Plus, after 3 years of negative rainfall, it will take at least 2 back to back ++ winters to get things back to relative normal. Saw a report stating that the drought may continue through 2015. Not Good..

It is time to tap the sea..

-Nathan-

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I've been hearing it's

Do you take this condition seriously?

You should rephrase that; Serious? Yes. Worried? No. Weather's like the stock market.

I am not worried, but I sure get annoyed when the City of Glendora fines people for not watering their lawns.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/07/17/to-water-or-not-to-water-glendora-couple-getting-mixed-messages-about-brown-lawn/

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Do you take this condition seriously?

You should rephrase that; Serious? Yes. Worried? No. Weather's like the stock market.

Right on man. Precisely why there is an average. Some above and some below.
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I love my lawns. I think golf courses are a waste , also huge polluters, imagine all, the NTG leaching into the ground from the expansive lawns...

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I love my lawns. I think golf courses are a waste , also huge polluters, imagine all, the NTG leaching into the ground from the expansive lawns...

Netafim drip lines under the turf makes it possible to grow a lawn with very little water. Those things don't clog even if they're buried. I am actually planning on putting my lawn back now that I've familiarized myself with how those things work. They can even take gray water.

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Wow

I love my lawns. I think golf courses are a waste , also huge polluters, imagine all, the NTG leaching into the ground from the expansive lawns...

Netafim drip lines under the turf makes it possible to grow a lawn with very little water. Those things don't clog even if they're buried. I am actually planning on putting my lawn back now that I've familiarized myself with how those things work. They can even take gray water.

Wow

So are they buried under sod? Never seen those?

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Do you take this condition seriously?

You should rephrase that; Serious? Yes. Worried? No. Weather's like the stock market.

Right on man. Precisely why there is an average. Some above and some below.

The big fear is that the average will lower over time. What's drought today could be the normal of tomorrow. If that happens, alas. I might have to be Brahea Dave as opposed to Dave of the Archontophoenix.

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I've been hearing it's

Do you take this condition seriously?

You should rephrase that; Serious? Yes. Worried? No. Weather's like the stock market.

I am not worried, but I sure get annoyed when the City of Glendora fines people for not watering their lawns.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2014/07/17/to-water-or-not-to-water-glendora-couple-getting-mixed-messages-about-brown-lawn/

hoo, hoo baby.

This isn't the first time a city and the State of Cali have locked horns. Sort of, albeit indirectly. I remember back during the Malathion Wars against the Medfly when one set of copters sprayed malathion and the cops told them to stop. They didn't.

If the Ag Commisioner of a county wants to declare martial (not marital) law, s/he can, and maybe it might come to that in this case, though the citizenry will be PO'd.

Let's keep our forum fun and friendly.

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Yes, you put them right under the turf. The 12mm 0.4GPH every 12 inches do the trick.

http://www.netafimusa.com/files/applications/landscape/case-studies/solutions-by-netafim-DeltaBluegrass.pdf

I would use MP Rotators for a large rectangular lawn like the pictured one in your link. In my opinion, subsurface Netafim is most applicable for very narrow or very irregular shaped beds.

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