Information Misc
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Infrastructure: Buried No Longer
You will find that all this money that is needed for the upgrading of the water infrastructure could cause your water bill to triple. The massive investment needed for buried drinking water infrastructure in the United States totals more than $1 trillion between now and 2035. The need will double from roughly $13 billion a year today to almost $30 billion (in 2010 dollars) annually by the 2040s, and the cost will be met primarily through higher ...
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Ice Melt and Concrete Myths
Winter brings the most picturesque scenes: families playing in the snow, friends around the fireplace and ski trips, but it also brings a rise in weather related problems. Of these, ice and its removal are among the most critical. Unfortunately, there are a small percentage of those who crack their ice dilemma only to face another problem when spring arrives; damaged concrete. There is much confusion surrounding this damage which is mostly caused by the ...
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Landscaping Tips That Can Help Sell Your Home
Use these 10 tips to increase your home's curb appeal and find out how an attractive and well-maintained landscape can add as much as 10 percent to its value. Potential home buyers form their first impression of a home from its curb appeal. Yet often a home's outdoor landscaping is overlooked, or underdone, in the preparation for the sales process. An attractive and well-maintained landscape can add ...
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Established Turf Care
Established Turf Care In Colorado most lawns are comprised of cool-season grasses. Kentucky Bluegrass is the most popular grass accounting for 95% of all turf areas. Tall Fescue is second and becoming more popular. The growing season for these grasses is April to October. A well designed and maintained automatic sprinkler system is highly recommended in Colorado to maintain turf and to use water wisely. The following information applies to Kentucky Bluegrass and Tall Fescue. Watering Watering your ...
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Turf Care
Turf Tips Sod Early, Beat the Mud The last two weeks in March are historically very wet weeks due to snow and rain. If you are tired of mud and want to install sod soon, plan on late February or early March. This is a great time to put your lawn in and take advantage of the free spring moisture. Check Your Irrigation, Late March Now it is time to fire up your sprinkler system. With temperatures in the ...
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Which Grass to Choose for Colorado
Which Grass Bluegrass Kentucky Bluegrass is the most widely used turfgrass in the Denver metro area. About 95% of all lawns and parks are Kentucky Bluegrass. Bluegrass produces a fine dense textured turf which can stand up to heavy traffic and use. Bluegrass is a rhizomatous turf that spreads through underground roots or rhizomes and produces new grass plants to stay dense and thick. It is deep green in color and is ...
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Benifits of Sod
Reduces Heat On a hot summer day, a lawn will be 30 degrees cooler than asphalt and rock & 15 degrees cooler than bare soil. The front lawns of 8 homes have the cooling effect in hot weather of about 70 tons of air conditioning. A 2,500 square foot lawn can absorb carbon dioxide and release enough oxygen for a family of four to breathe. Reduces greenhouse gases Much cooler that rock, concrete, asphalt and artificial turf Releases oxygen ...
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How to measure for new sod
Measuring For Sod How to measure an area for sod square feet (sq.ft.) Use the following methods to figure out how many square feet the area is you want to sod. It is best to run out of sod than to have too much due to its perishable nature. All of our sod is sold by the square foot (sq.ft.) so please measure in feet. The following is how to measure different shaped areas. Get a piece of ...
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Tree and Plant Database
The Wildflower Center's Native Plant Information Network allows you to search for native plant info by plant traits or names, browse through our collection of 25,364 native plant images, and pose your plant question to our resident horticulturalist. This is by far the most informative website I have found on native plant life and the ability to see the plant and all the information pertaining to the plant. They have over 25k ...
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Deer Resistant Plants
A Recommended List of Deer - Resistant Plants Many citizens have been asking the Town about deer-resistant plants that they can use in their landscaping. The following list represents plants that deer and rabbits usually will not eat. As these animals cannot read, and don’t know any better, sometimes they just can’t resist sampling a different “flavor” from your garden. There is no guarantee that one of ...
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