SF Water Management District board of governors
agreed to stop funding urban mobile irrigation labs
when their new budget was approved at the September 10 meeting.

Jack Tanner, Chairman of the Lee Soil and Water Conservation District,
said he attended the meeting in West Palm Beach and told board members
that millions of tax dollars were wasted funding labs that only
evaluate, not repair, sprinkler systems, and each evaluation cost over
$300.

Tanner said "private property owners and irrigation contractors
do thousands of sprinkler tune-ups annually, that are more effective
saving water and cost less".

Terrie Bates, Assistant Deputy Executive Director of Water Resources,
said the water district spent $7,156,860 since 1992,
and actual water savings are difficult to confirm.

Lee Soil and Water Conservation District board members, Kim Hawk, Tom
Clark, and Tanner, voted to terminate all mobile irrigation lab
contracts, during the first meeting in 2007, which cut income and
expense over 98%.

PRESENTATION (16 pages)
http://tinyurl.com/4bosxu

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VIDEO, agenda item #12 (drag recording marker to 3:43 near end)
http://tinyurl.com/4gq2qn

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