Convert a strip of nonfunctional public turf to native planting.

Nonfunctional turf is grass nobody walks on, watered anyway, forever. Nevada wrote it into law and pays to remove it; most places have the same strips and no program. On a named public median, parking island or park edge in Mount Pleasant, with the authority's written permission, convert one strip: the turf smothered or lifted by hand, the soil loosened, regionally native low water species planted at spacing, mulched, and the irrigation for that strip shut off at the zone by the authority's own staff. Record the square footage and the strip's prior water use so the saving can be counted later.

Where

public roads, village parks and the Pike River path, Mount Pleasant, Racine County, WI · Open the map

Pay

$320 proposed

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Proof

written permission, GPS polygon with square footage, before and after photos, species list with counts and spacing, and written confirmation from the authority that the zone is off

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

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-10-01

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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

• The public authority's written permission naming the strip, with a GPS polygon and the square footage converted
• Before and after photos from the same two vantage points, plus a photo of the mulched finished strip
• Species list with counts and spacing, all regionally native and low water for the region, with the nursery or seed source
• Written confirmation from the authority that the irrigation zone serving the strip has been shut off or re-programmed, naming who did it

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.