The work done on hands and knees to put in a landscape with new lines and dimensions at a home or business takes more than the right native and drought tolerant plants to make the outdoors a water conservation area. Landscape contractors that have a membership in the San Diego chapter of the California Landscape Contractors Association do not miss out on the latest technology and designs used in the industry to make the give and take in a water ecosystem balance out.
Members get updates on small changes in industry practices during seminars held regularly throughout the year. The goal is to make them the "best qualified professionals."
The members are market leaders that beautify homes and business estates with sustainable landscaping. AAA Landscape Specialists handles outdoor irrigation jobs and puts in fountains, pools and ponds in Del Mar and inland in the north county. A property owner in almost any community in the county that wants to order anything from drip to commercial grade rotor irrigation can call up JCMS Landscaping to build a drought tolerant garden.
In early March, during ongoing concerns that the water imported into the desert areas might drop below a level sufficient for a growing set of property owners in the county, especially if the Colorado River supply gets cut by as much as half, the association will hold its 4th Annual Sustainable Urban Landscape Conference at Cuyamaca College on Rancho San Diego Parkway in El Cajon to discuss the future of new models for landscaping work designed to keep the development of sustainable landscaping open work. Government professionals will join the contracting companies and industry professionals to find out the practices industry contractors need to learn.
The industry leaders plan on not letting the San Diego workforce fall behind. Staying a step ahead is the association's motivation for setting up the learning opportunity.
Raising the playing field is worked on year round, in the rainfall season and later in the dry season. Association experts on water efficient irrigation stay on hand to consult on the sustainable conservation practices used in irrigation. Practices that save both water and work.
Planting vigrous growing plants that last a long time in a healthy condition is work that has stricter limits on the irrigation used to water the landscape than in the past in San Diego. The Water Conservation Act, in the mid 2000s, started off a string of changes to local ordinances on water use and irrigation. Local officials in the city decided to make a water budget a requirement for lansdscaping work. Recent changes made to the irrigation rules made measuring water usage more standard by starting a new practice for contractors. They prepare a Water Efficient Landscape Worksheet to calculate a maximum applied water allowance and an estimated total water usage in gallons per year and verify that the estimated use is not higher than the allowance.
Designing a landscape to minimize runoff on hard surfaces and keep evaporation light is not a lazy and relaxing enterprise.
The professional landscapers that have California licenses make their hand a guaranteed leader in using current landscape models in the industry by getting a certification. The 30th and 31st in March volunteers from the association will work with local companies to put on the yearly spring test at Cuyamaca College--a written test one day and a hands-on field test on installing or maintaining a modern landscape model the second. Irrigation is one of 5 modules in the test.
Certification, one by one, adds professionals with proven up-to-date knowledge to the local contracting market to build up a proficient workforce.
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