HOA Saves $251,000 In Water
From Mission Viejo Dispatch
July 15, 2010
The Oso Valley Greenbelt Assn and Harvest Landscaping were honored recently by the City for a project that saved 108 million gallons of water over a two-year period. The HOA is currently engaged in a 5-year landscape plan.
Harvest worked with Monarch Environmental and PCM to upgrade a 25-year-old irrigation system, reduce passive turf areas, remove dead or dying plants, rejuvenate high-impact areas and replant designated areas within the community. Together, the measures saved the association more than $251,000 in maintenance costs over two years.
The 150-acre landscape had become wildly overgrown in 25 years. Much of the irrigation system had broken and lines leaked. Broken sprinkler heads had been capped off instead of repaired. Overgrowth blocked many of the lines that did work, which meant the irrigation system had to run longer.
“Harvest strives to apply practical approaches to its projects in order to conserve resources, save money and enhance the beauty of the landscape,” said President Steven Schinhofen.
