Valleycrest Forms Partnership

ValleyCrest Landscape Companies announced that it has selected Weathermatic as a preferred provider for smart, or weather-based, irrigation controllers. Weathermatic's SmartLine irrigation controllers act as a ''thermostat for the landscape'' and help companies solve landscape irrigation water use issues.

''ValleyCrest is partnering with Weathermatic because we understand the importance of water management for our customers and also the need to simplify the application of complex technologies onto our customers' properties,'' said Roger Zino, President of ValleyCrest Landscape Maintenance. ''After an extensive product review and testing process in which our water management technology team evaluated a wide range of solutions, we determined that Weathermatic's products and services were a good match for the needs of many of our customers.''

Smart controllers adjust irrigation watering times based upon actual weather conditions, for example watering less when cloudy and cool and more when warmer and drier. By appropriate application and management of smart controller technologies, in combination with other water management practices including drought tolerant plantings, use of drip irrigation, hydrozoning, and storm water management techniques, ValleyCrest can make significant differences in the amount of water used on the properties it services. Smartly reducing water usage is the right result for many reasons - it reduces water bills for property owners, improves plant health, reduces water-related damage to roads, sidewalks, and other site elements, and is the just right thing to do from the standpoint of environmental stewardship. Studies show that without proper water management systems in place a property typically is overwatered by 30 percent.