Well Set Sprinklers Reduce Slip and Fall Injuries

The next time your sprinkler system runs take a tour of your commercial property and look-over the spray pattern that is coming from the individual heads.  Not just how well your system is reaching all of your plantings and lawn areas but what about run-off and overshoot.

At a minimum overshoot and run-off indicate a waste of water.  Perhaps, more importantly, they can be a real hazard and liability exposure.

What follows are two statements that give you an idea of the seriousness of standing water from your sprinklers.

“When an individual slips & falls on someone else’s property and is injured as a result of a dangerous condition on the property, the land owner or business proprietor may find himself legally responsible and may be liable for the injuries.

Property owners are responsible for injuries that occur as a result of a dangerous or hazardous condition on their property, which the owner knew about, or should have known about.”

Dangerous & hazardous conditions may cause slips and falls due to accumulation of water, ice or snow, liquids, as well as abrupt changes in flooring, raised or cracked sidewalks, poor lighting, or a hidden hazard, such as a hidden ground hole.

In some cases a simple adjustment can correct an errant sprinkler head.  Consider that check valves only prevent gravity drainage of water out of the heads.  Heads with check valves should be installed along sidewalks and curbs when the irrigation system is on a sloped area.  Otherwise the water left in the pipes after the valve closes will drain out of the lowest heads and onto the sidewalk where someone might slip and fall on it.   Use of check valves also reduces the amount of "spitting air" the sprinklers do before each time the valve is opened.  Normally the worst case is the replacement of a head with one of a different style.  

In rare cases it may mean that a change is needed in the actual layout or the creation of a better designed zone.  What ever is causing your watering problems we can help correct your commercial landscape problems.

Let Greens Keeper Landscape Maintenance do all the work for you and take the burden off your shoulders all together.  Give us a call at 623-848-8277 and let’s talk about it.

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