http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndhghs5OO0U&feature=youtu.be
I cut the grass around the sunken sprinkler head. All the sprinkler heads in Sundance Park should look like this. |
Shows how the grass around the sprinkler heads after being cut. A gas trimmer can trim this grass easily. I used hand clippers. |
Shows why sprinkler heads cannot pop up 4 - 6 inches to water, as the grass length prevents that from mathematically happening. |
Sundance Park with the sprinklers not working and the park on the other side of Hoover green and watered with the sprinklers working. |
I put a 12 inch ruler into the sunken sprinkler head hole. |
I put a 12 inch ruler into the sunken sprinkler head hole. |
I put a 12 inch ruler into the sunken sprinkler head hole. |
I put a 12 inch ruler into the sunken sprinkler head hole. |
I put a 12 inch ruler into the sunken sprinkler head hole. |
A buried sprinkler head that cannot water a large area. |
Another buried sprinkler head that cannot water a large area. |
Another buried sprinkler head that cannot water a large area. |
One can see the round green spots amid the non watered grass. |
The area near Hoover. The buffalo grass is dormant. |
A pic of a very dry area in Sundance Park. |
Up close pic of dormant buffalo grass near Hoover. |
Only a small green area that is watered from that sprinkler. |