Handling of super saturated soil

[emil]

@sbillard

I looked at the article you cite. I think the situation in my case it that the excess water would count as “runoff” in the article. But unfortunately it does not run off as it is trapped by a wood grass barrier on the down slope side and the slope is almost negligible.

@sbillard, yes we would consider water over the saturation limit runoff. Sounds like the wood grass barrier is causing the water to pool. Is this installed for construction purposes?

@danckert

it tried to water every station for about an hour each. At this point I have all stations turned off as I can’t seem to trust it to know that nothing needs any water. I’ve never watered anything that long in my entire life

@danckert, just curious, how long did you water before installing your Rachio? Are you attempting to water grass? Trees? etc?

@sbillard

1 “Fill” your zones since they are most likely full and the Iro does not have the history to know so.

Great tip!

@aristobrat

Use the web or smartphone app to drill into a zone and see what its moisture level currently is.

@aristobrat, another great tip! Here’s a support article to learn more about moisture levels/graphs.

@Lars

Another thing you can do is set the freeze delay all the way up. It only goes to 45 degrees though. Here in so Cal that is basically zero evaporation or need for water. I use ifttt to trigger a one day rain delay at 50 degrees.

@Lars, what schedule type are you using? Flex daily schedules will have all weather intelligence features (including freeze delay) enabled.