The staff spent Monday blowing out the system in preparation for winter. This normally takes place by the first week of December but was delayed because of the mild weather and the new sod that had been laid in late fall for the bunker project. Adequate amounts of rain over the last couple of weeks and the potential for some colder weather signaled it was time to shutdown the system. We rent a large air compressor that hooks into the irrigation system and forces a volume(900 cubic feet per minute) of air through the system while the staff turns on the sprinkler heads and allows the water to evacuate from the system until air blows out of the head. The staff are able to turn on 10-12 heads throughout the property at a time for this process.
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| 900 cfm compressor hooked into the main line at the pumphouse. |
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| Heads on #13 purging water from the irrigation lines. |
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