Aqua Conservation Landscape & Irrigation

12/15/2018

Wait till after the Ad. There will be a video of the Estate.

Former Lehman Brothers CEO Dick Fuld to auction off his 71-acre Sun Valley, Idaho, estate.

12/15/2018

Here is the birthplace of Aqua Conservation.
Hard to believe that I & my crew did a complete Landscape & Irrigation renovation on all three houses and the Estate grounds in 2003 & 2004.
Also designed & installed the Landscape & Irrigation for the new bridge across the Wood River coming in to the Estate by myself.
I met Mr. Fuld face to face only once outside of the Main house so he could be introduced to me and shake my hand expressing how wonderful the entire place looked since I started working on it ... and to apologize for (as he claimed unknowingly) the unpaid bill of the renovation work done 4 months previous. He promised me that a cashier's check for the full amount owed, as well as a bonus, would be in my hand before 3 pm the next day. It was.
I only saw him maybe three more times at the Estate but he would wave at me as he drove by and I honestly think he was to embarrassed to do anything more but just that. It made me laugh that I ... a humble Landscape & Irrigation guy ... for at least a few amazing moments was better than the head of Lehman Brothers!
More amazing than that is the fact that a few years later ... in a way ... I was a part of the biggest Estate auction ever. All the work the guys & I did there was the 1st impression of it all. The Lord truly does work in mysterious ways.

The $20 million estate of Dick Fuld features a private trout-fishing stream

06/10/2018

Have a client at top of Glenwood & Rim Drive near Cole Rd who is getting her driplines and now this chewed up by some kind of critter. Anybody ever seen this much damage to a valve box lid by an animal before & if so what is it? Ideas & thoughts gladly welcomed.

06/10/2018

Calhoun Residence

06/10/2018

Just a few years of Idaho & texas Licenses held.

06/08/2018

So I've been asked to help a long time Boise area firm go to the next level and have been working part time as a consultant with the owner and his team. It looks like we most likely sold the Treasure Valley's biggest residential home builder and newly acquired by one of the Nation's biggest, high end builders (who I had done some work for in the Austin metro area so many years ago) Toll Brothers buying out for cash at 85.2 million Coleman homes. For ProVision in less than 3 weeks of only three day a week time I was able to help the owner sell his staff & employee's to Coleman for a total of 350 homes in just one sub-division with 4 model homes to be built this Fall and houses (depending on winter) ready for ProVision Landscape in the early spring. The owner of ProVision wants me to come on full time but I really no longer do "Builder" production type of installs and he has the Manager who will continue to do very well with that as he already is with some smaller "Builders" right now and running 30 guys doing install.
I did let Coleman\Toll Brothers know at the end of that meeting that ProVision and I are very interested in doing the installs for the sub-division entry ways and common areas as I have pretty much specialized in really big projects (Tamarack Resort, Idaho Native Plant Garden, Golf courses, Austin\Bergstrom Airport, Fuld Estate etc) and the meatgrinder of production installs are no longer of any interest or fun to do for me.
I will always keep Aqua Conservation going for Consultations and may pick a few higher end Residential installs to Design\Build if intrigued enough but will always be here for those that need me and keep Aqua Conservation alive, if in name only to protect what I have done here in Idaho.
Happy Landscaping

06/02/2018

Anyone looking for employment and wanting to learn from a 40 year veteran please let me know.

05/02/2018

IRRIGATION

Texas officials receive input on irrigation classification

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality hosted a testimony hearing in nine locations throughout the state in January seeking input from the irrigation and backflow industries, cities, water districts and any other interested parties on whether irrigation should be classified as a health hazard.

The meetings were held throughout the state in various locations, including in Fort Worth, Tyler, Houston, Corpus Christi, Harlingen, El Paso, Austin, Wolfforth and San Antonio.

A health hazard is defined in the Chapter 344 rules as “A cross-connection or potential cross-connection with an irrigation system that involves any substance that may, if introduced into the potable water supply, cause death or illness, spread disease, or have a high probability of causing such effects.”

The International Plumbing Code, the Uniform Plumbing Code; the University of Southern California Foundation for Cross-Connection Control and Hydraulic Research; the American Water Works Association; and the American Backflow Prevention Association all consider irrigation, with or without chemical injection or additives, to be a health hazard due to the f***l material, fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides and other chemical and biological contaminants that may exist within the piping system of both residential and commercial irrigation systems.

On Nov10, 2016, the TCEQ’s Irrigator Advisory Council voted to recommend the classification of landscape irrigation as a health hazard to protect the public water supply and to stay consistent with these national and international standards.

According to the Chair of the IAC, John DeCell, “The real issue here is public health and safety. We should do all we can to protect the water supply, and not simply install a backflow prevention assembly and hope that it works forever without any further testing.”

More information on the rule petition is available at www.tceq.texas.gov/drinkingwater/irrigation/landscape-irrigation-regulation-stakeholder-process.

Stakeholder information including meeting schedule, scope of project, and backflow/cross-connection technical information.

04/21/2018

No, this is not the way to get correct distance of spray from a sprinkler.

04/19/2018

I've lived in the Wood River & upper Payette River valleys and the snowfall this year after keeping track of it was marginal at best ... so I'm calling BS on 'THEIR' reporting. The huge amount of wasted water from very inefficient and incorrectly installed Landscape watering systems allowed by Idaho is never addressed and effects just how much water there really is for Ag Producers.

Idaho’s snowpack season is ending on a positive note, providing many irrigators with adequately supplied river and reservoir systems to draw from as the growing season kicks into high gear.Most river basins are near or above their annual average for snowpack, experts said at an April 12 Idaho