Seminar Dates: September 18, 2024 1:15 PM
Seminar Cost: $45.00 Register Now
Seminar Description:
In 2019, the California Center for Urban Horticulture, UC Davis, created the SmartLandscape initiative to determine if low water use landscapes could be designed, installed, managed, and maintained to meet the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance (MWELO). For MWELO performance approach compliance, Maximum Applied Water Allowance (MAWA) is greater than the Estimated Water Use (ETWU).?While MWELO compliance is determined by estimating water use for a specific landscape area, the SmartLandscape initiative will validate compliance by measuring Actual Water Applied (AWA). SmartLawn demonstration plots (cool and warm season turf) and SmartScape I and II were designed and planted irrigated by sub-surface and surface irrigation dispersion and smart controller technology.
This presentation will provide data confirming MWELO compliance of SmartLawn and SmartScape landscapes by utilizing AWA versus ETWU and how AWA data was utilized to confirm calculate the actual plant factors for SmartLawn and SmartScape landscapes. Comparison of AWA plant factors will also be compared to the plant factors assigned by WUCOLS IV. Measuring and employing AWA data is the definitive method for confirming MWELO compliance versus using ETWU for both SmartLawn and SmartScape demonstration landscapes.
Learning Objectives:
1. Low water use landscapes, warm season turfgrass and mixed shrub and trees, can be designed, installed, managed, and maintained to meet the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance at UC Davis.
2. Measuring and using actual water applied data provides definitive confirmation for MWELO compliance versus using ETWU.
3 Landscape irrigation replacement strategy for MWELO compliance is challenging.
Dave Fujino
SmartLandscape at UC Davis
Dave Fujino has served for more than 17 years as the director of the California Center for Urban Horticulture (CCUH), Co-Director of the UC Nursery and Floriculture Alliance at UC Davis and past Chair of the Saratoga Horticultural Research Endowment. He earned his B.S. in Plant Science at UC Riverside, and his M.S. and Ph.D. from UC Davis in Environmental Horticulture and Plant Physiology. Fujino’s experience includes over 17 years in senior level management with a large wholesale horticultural company. His expertise includes organizational development, operations improvement, information technology, strategic planning, marketing, research and development, training, fund raising, and other areas. In 2017, he was inducted into the Green Industry “Hall of Fame” for having a positive impact in the horticulture industry. His current focus is on the implementation of the SmartLandscape initiative at UC Davis, which demonstrates different landscape projects designed to conserve water and to meet the California’s Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance by leveraging current irrigation technologies.
