How much are you paying, or how many gallons are you using, each month for water? Our normal usage is between 4-5k gallons during the year, but naturally increases during the summer. Still, it seems odd that it would have jumped to over 8k this past month (bill was a little over $100). I don't have an in-ground irrigation system and only occasionally use sprinklers for the lawn. I'm curious how much water others use, especially you who have dedicated irrigation systems.

 

Does water bill mean anything since every system is different, my controller skips ‘runs’ when rain is forecast, and it adjusts to the season/weather?

Here in Toronto Canada I pay $4.60 / 1 cubic metre = 1,000 litres = 264 US gallons. It works out to about $15.00 per run but I only have 140 sq. m. of lawn, a drip flowerbed, and to planters on drip.

 

That’s weird, though a thread was just emailed to me as a new update. 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

I have a big lawn and we in a drought. Knocking on 100k gallons this month. That’s $600

 

I need to put an inline meter on the irrigation line. But 11 zones for 30 min, times an average of 6 heads at 3gpm each , plus the drip zone is right at 6k gallons per watering. This is for one acre. Luckily we are near a swamp with no shortage of water. My electric bill to power the well probably cost more than many here pay to irrigate.

INTERESTING Stat.…One inch of rain falling on 1 acre of ground is equal to about 27,154 gallons and weighs about 113 tons.

 

I need to put an inline meter on the irrigation line. But 11 zones for 30 min, times an average of 6 heads at 3gpm each , plus the drip zone is right at 6k gallons per watering. This is for one acre. Luckily we are near a swamp with no shortage of water. My electric bill to power the well more than many here pay to irrigate. This could not be done without a well.

INTERESTING Stat.…One inch of rain falling on 1 acre of ground is equal to about 27,154 gallons and weighs about 113 tons.

I am in the same boat here, I have 1 acre and had the trees removed and this year decided to really work on getting a nice lawn. I got a glimpse of what my water bill could be last year when I had to run the water 5x a day for 3 months to ensure my Centipede grass germinated and grew. My water bill had never been over $40 before that; during that time it jumped to over $500...oh and that was for just the front yard which had 4 drip zones and 17K sq ft of turf.

I got a well installed this year because I knew there was no way I was going to spend that kind of money every month to water both the front and back yard. I still don't know what the total monthly water usage will be because I am still installing the sprinkler system for the back yard but so far I am averaging around 30K gallons per week for just the front. I'm guessing the back yard will at least double that which would have put my water bill up to around $600/mo during the summer.

When everything is done I will have around 20 zones and will probably average 10K+ gallons per month. The power bill increase was expected but still unwelcome.

 

What your average water bill?

Dallas, TX and a very hot summer the last two months...1/2 acre, 13 zones/67 heads, 2x weekly at 10 min/zone, bedding areas 3x/week. $185 for July, expecting slightly more for August.

 

I live in Lemon Grove, Ca, Zone 10b, TTTF. Its prolly cheaper to use bottled water for irrigation than city water. Watering only 2,300 sqft is $315 for June and our hottest month isn't til August. I use an irrometer/tensiometer to precisely track my irrigation needs and it still cost an arm and a leg. Our average rainfall from June thru Sept is only 0.5 inches, if any. All my neighbors have switched to hardscape many years ago, but they are a little older and on fixed incomes. One neighbor catches stray water in his shower with a bucket for his veggie garden. Its an expensive hobby, but the neighbors glowing comments are all worth it.

 

I live in Salt Lake City, Utah. 3,000 square feet of lawn + probably another 1,000 square feet of flowers beds (maybe more). Worst water bill I've seen is about $120 per month but most of my monthly bills even in May, June and September come in under $100.

 

Our bill was $60/month when we moved into this house 8.5 years ago. Now closer to $110/month. That kind of increase in such a short amount of time is crazy. I even called the conservice customer service because I thought the last bill was a mistake.