Fort Worth, Texas · Tarrant County
Irrigation and landscape work in Fort Worth
Fort Worth is not on blackland clay. Much of the city sits on the Fort Worth Prairie, where the characteristic soil is nine to twenty inches deep over coarsely fractured limestone. That single fact changes everything about an installation here. Trenching means a rock saw rather than a chain trencher, mainline routing gets designed around rock rather than in straight lines, and shallow soil holds very little water — so drought stress arrives far faster than it does on clay, and short frequent cycles beat long ones.
The watering rules here are permanent, not a drought measure. Even-numbered addresses water Wednesdays and Saturdays, odd-numbered Thursdays and Sundays, non-residential Tuesdays and Fridays, and nobody waters on Monday. Nothing runs between 10am and 6pm, year round. Rain and freeze sensors have been required on systems installed since mid-2007. That is a stricter baseline than any city east of Dallas, and it applies whether or not the lakes are full.
Fort Worth also has requirements that a contractor from elsewhere can easily fall foul of. Backflow assemblies must be tested on installation and annually thereafter, by a tester registered with the City of Fort Worth specifically, with results filed through the city’s online system — a tester registered in another city is not automatically accepted here. Controllers must be permanently marked with the irrigator’s licence number and contact details. And the city requires a documented walk-through and a written contract.
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