Sprinkler Repair & Irrigation in Forney, TX

Irrigation and landscape work in Forney

Forney has taken a great deal of the eastward growth along US-80, and the irrigation work here looks much like the rest of the new-build belt: systems installed with the house, on tight schedules, now old enough to need their first real service.

Kaufman County clay is unforgiving. It shrinks away from the slab in a dry summer and swells back after rain, and that movement is hard on buried pipe, on head alignment, and on the grading a builder signed off two years ago. A meaningful share of what we do in Forney is drainage work that would not have been needed if the original grading had accounted for how this ground behaves.

Water service in Forney comes through the city, and watering-day rules are set locally. If you have moved here from another city in the metroplex, do not assume the schedule you are used to still applies.

Water, soil and rules in Forney

Water service in Forney is provided by the city, which publishes its own watering and conservation rules. Supply comes through the North Texas Municipal Water District.

Under Texas Commission on Environmental Quality rules, selling, designing, installing, altering, repairing or servicing an irrigation system requires a TCEQ licence. Ask any contractor for their license number before work begins — in Forney as anywhere else in Texas.

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City

Forney, Texas

County

Kaufman County

Water supply

North Texas Municipal Water District

Watering rules

City of Forney Water Information

Soil

Blackland Prairie clay — shrinks in drought, swells after rain

We cover

Sprinkler repair, irrigation installation, winterization, drainage, landscaping, sod, grounds maintenance