Thirty nine years of inspecting and repairing black tubing irrigation systems evidences widespread leakages all over our area. There’s virtually no early morning walk that one couldn’t see oozing, dribbling even gushing lines with water being wasted in landscaping.
It appears clearly that this black hose like tubing is far too fragile to stand up to our needs to conserve water. The tubing erodes and even erupts due to pressure, soil acids, root growth, animal gnawing, etc. Spaghetti hoses pull lose from the tubing as do emitters … with copious gallons of precious water being wasted … every single day.
Since most of these irrigation systems run at night or are too deeply buried, the chances of even a conscientious property owner, or even landscapers who typically work days, catching these leaks is limited with the result that leaks can go on and on for very long periods.
I thus submit to you the convenience and economy of installing untold miles of these snap-together rolls of tubing in no way comes anywhere near worth the cost of the loss of our most precious resource: WATER. Other materials such as much heavier gauged, glue-together PVC piping, even if outfitted with other drip system components: spaghetti hoses, emitters, etc … where at least these hoses and fittings are more surface level, would go along way to helping to cut our water wasting (despite the protests from builders and landscapers). THIS IS A BIG DEAL!
Lou Zuccaro
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