Sprinkler Repair & Irrigation in Nevada, TX

Irrigation and landscape work in Nevada

Nevada is a genuinely rural community in south-east Collin County, two miles east of Lavon Lake, with a population still in four figures. Its zoning tells you what the work looks like: two-acre agricultural lots, one-acre single-family, and even the smallest residential district requires an approved on-site sewage system unless it can connect to a sanitary sewer. This is acreage, and it is septic country.

That matters more than it sounds for irrigation. On a one or two acre lot you are laying out around a drain field and its reserve area, not just around a house pad — and putting a lateral through a septic field is an expensive mistake. Long mainline runs from the meter to the far corner mean pressure falls away, and a dozen or more zones on what is still a residential connection needs designing rather than assembling.

There is no city water utility here. Retail water comes from Nevada Special Utility District, which takes its water from the North Texas Municipal Water District. We could not find any published watering restrictions from the district — which is a legitimate finding rather than an oversight, and we would rather say so than invent a schedule. Confirm the current position with the district directly. Plenty of properties out here are on private wells instead, which brings its own considerations.

Water, soil and rules in Nevada

Nevada has no municipal water utility. Retail water is supplied by Nevada Special Utility District, which is a direct customer of the North Texas Municipal Water District. We could not find any published watering restrictions from the district, so we are not going to state one — contact Nevada SUD to confirm what currently applies to your connection. The city does require a permit for underground sprinklers, and is itself the permitting authority for on-site sewage facilities, which is worth knowing before anyone trenches on an acreage lot. Private wells in Collin County fall under the North Texas Groundwater Conservation District, with ordinary residential wells generally exempt from permitting and metering.

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 Nevada as anywhere else in Texas.

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City

Nevada, Texas

County

Collin County

Water supply

Nevada Special Utility District, on North Texas Municipal Water District water

Watering rules

Nevada Special Utility District

Soil

Blackland Prairie, with loamy alluvial ground toward the creeks

We cover

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