Build the water budget baseline for public landscape.

A public lawn has a water budget whether or not anyone wrote one down. For a named park, school ground or civic landscape in Tucson, measure or take from public records the irrigated area by type, turf, shrub, native and unirrigated, pull twelve months of reference evapotranspiration from the nearest public weather station, and compute what the landscape should need under the WaterSense budget approach. Then set that beside what the site's own meter or the agency's own records say it used. The gap, in either direction, is the finding.

Where

public streets, river park paths and city parks, Tucson, Pima County, AZ · Open the map

Pay

$80 proposed

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Proof

irrigated area by type with how it was measured, twelve months of reference ET with the station id, the computed budget, the recorded use, and the gap stated in both volume and percent

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-01

Posted by

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

• GPS phone, camera and a measuring wheel or tape
• public aerial imagery and the agency's landscape plan where one exists
• twelve months of reference evapotranspiration from the nearest public weather station
• the site's own water use records or meter readings
• the WaterSense labeled controller with its manual, and a rain or soil moisture sensor
• hand tools, mulch and regionally native plants for the conversion rung, with an 811 locate before any digging

Steps

1. 1. Get written permission from the owning authority, naming the site and the work, before any measurement, programming or planting.
2. 2. Walk and map the site: irrigated area by landscape type, and for each zone the soil, the slope, the plant type and the head type, photographed as recorded.
3. 3. Pull twelve months of reference evapotranspiration from the nearest public weather station, name the station and the network, and apply plant factors from a cited source rather than from memory.
4. 4. Compute the budget volume and set it beside the site's recorded use, labeling where the use figure came from, then state the gap in both volume and percent and one plain sentence on what could explain it.
5. 5. For a controller packet, save the existing schedule before changing anything, program the new schedule to the zone map, pair the rain or soil moisture sensor, and photograph the old and new schedules side by side. Work at the controller face and an existing outlet only: never open an electrical enclosure and never land a wire.
6. 6. For a turf conversion, mark the strip, smother or hand lift the turf, loosen the soil, plant regionally native low water species at spacing, and mulch. Then obtain written confirmation from the authority that the zone serving the strip has been shut off or re-programmed by their own staff.
7. 7. Record the square footage converted and the strip's prior water use, so the saving can be counted next season rather than claimed today.

What counts as done

• Irrigated area by landscape type with the method used to measure it, from public aerial imagery, an agency plan, or a walked perimeter
• Twelve months of reference evapotranspiration with the weather station id and network named, and the plant factors used with their source
• The computed budget volume for the year and the recorded use from the site meter or the agency's records, with the source of the use figure labeled
• The gap stated in volume and percent, with a plain sentence on which way it goes and what could explain it

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.