Every day I drive past Copper River Country Club on my way home from work, and everyday my car gets soaked with water from the rivers of landscaping water running from their thin grass strip across Friant road. Not only does this happen once per day, but twice, in the morning and in the evening. The strip of grass that is the subject to these ridiculous levels of watering is no more than 4 feet wide.

With all of the water problems here in the valley and people complaining about people overusing water for carwashes and other events, I was quite surprised that no one had previously noted the ridiculous watering going on at Copper River. This same level of rediculous overwatering takes place not only on Friant Road, but on the entire Copper River property.

It doesn’t take an Einstein to fix a problem like this either. With new sprinkler technologies and pulse and drip irrigation, lowering the amount of water used by a sprinkler system is as simple as replacing a few sprinkler heads and valves. We need to do everything that we can to conserve the little water we have here in the valley. It’s important that everyone does their part, especially businesses that typically use several times more water than the average home.

Copper River Country Club, please do your part and be responsible with your water usage. Having a soaking wet lawn is not worth losing the agricultural prowess this area possesses.