Greater Houston is roughly ten thousand square miles. Nobody in this trade covers that. An irrigator runs one or two trucks out of a yard somewhere and works a radius, and a call from Kingwood and a call from Katy on the same morning are fifty miles apart with the whole city in between. So this site is built to be found across the metro and answered one zone at a time — which is a deliberate design, not a limitation.
The zones below are ordered by how much irrigation is actually in the ground, which is a different map from where the people are. Three things predict it, and none of them is density of housing:
Communities built to a plan since the late 1970s put an irrigation system in at the same time as the sod, as standard. Penetration in those subdivisions approaches complete. A neighborhood built lot by lot over forty years has systems on some houses and not others.
Deed restrictions that require a maintained lawn are the reason a homeowner repairs a sprinkler system in August rather than letting the grass go dormant and waiting for October. Where the covenants have teeth, irrigation is not optional and the repair is not deferred.
An eight-thousand-square-foot lot with a house on most of it has a four-zone system. A half-acre in the Memorial villages has twelve zones, a well-shaded turf area, bed drip and something feeding the back of the property. More zones, more heads, more valves, more of everything that fails.
The inner loop. Heights, EaDo, Third Ward, Montrose and most of 610-interior are small lots, older housing, no HOA lawn covenants and much lower irrigation penetration. Those addresses are covered — they are simply not where this trade’s work is, and a site that pretended otherwise would be guessing.
Highest irrigation density in the metro: master-planned development, enforced landscape covenants and lot sizes that carry real zone counts.
Strong irrigation markets with their own distinct conditions — sandier soil north of the city, older stock in the Champions corridor, and a Fort Bend edge that is still being built.
Real coverage, no separate page — because a page here would be repeating what the pages above already say rather than telling you anything about that particular place. If the property is in one of these, the call is the same call.
Across most of this metro the entity that bills for water, sets the drought stage and decides whether an annual backflow test is required is a municipal utility district rather than a city. Two houses four hundred yards apart in the same subdivision, on the same street, with the same postal address city, can sit in different districts with different rules and different rates.
That is why nothing on this site states a single metro-wide watering schedule or testing requirement: any page that did would be wrong for most readers. The authority is the provider named on the water bill, and it is worth knowing which one that is before a drought stage arrives.
Say the nearest cross streets or the subdivision name rather than just the city — in this metro the subdivision tells an irrigator far more about the system than the postal address does.
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