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hand-watering?

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Erin Holdenried  on 

I am working on a project that has courtyard with planters which will be planted with species that have very minimal watering requirements. The planters will be hand-watered when needed.

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Fri Mar 11, 2016, 7:59 am

Green Wall

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Paula Hernandez  on 

Hi, our project is considering a green wall with drip irrigation. How do you declare that?

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Fri Jan 29, 2016, 9:43 am

Community Garden and Reclaimed Water

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Brightworks Sustainability  on 

Our project is using greywater for landscape irrigation, likely 100%. The project will have a small community garden where residents can grow their own food for consumption.

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Thu Jan 7, 2016, 11:36 pm

Manually Watering instead of Temporary Irrigation?

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Patrice McVeigh  on 

Hi All, For a water efficient landscape, with native plants and no requirements for irrigation except a temporary irrigation system for 12 or 18 months. Can a person within the maintenance team o

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Fri Nov 27, 2015, 7:24 pm

Controller Efficiency

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Michelle Rosenberger  on 

I see several threads attempting to get an answer on how one demonstrates controller efficiency and the most prevalent answer seems to be just use 1 because no other values can be substantiated by

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Mon Jul 20, 2015, 7:22 pm

"Landscape = 5% of the total site area" Rule

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Peg Manuel  on 

I've seen a couple different comment threads on this, so I just want to make sure we're doing the right thing, as we have 5 points pending.

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Mon May 18, 2015, 1:52 pm

Expansion area

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Gustavo De las Heras Izquierdo  on 

Our LEED Project Boundary includes a future expansion area. This area has grown native species naturally. Can this vegetated area be counted towards this credit?

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Fri May 15, 2015, 6:55 pm

Permanent Irrigation System, Temporary Use of Potable Water

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Daniel Costantino  on 

Hello, I am working on a project where there will be a permanent irrigation system.

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Thu Apr 16, 2015, 9:26 pm

Runoff/Gully Water

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Tamary Alvarez  on 

Our project's environmental site assessment has documented a gully resulting from the runoff of the adjacent site dumping into our site.

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Wed Jan 21, 2015, 1:22 pm

Irrigation area

NC-2009 WEc1:Water Efficient Landscaping
posted by  Alicja Bieszyńska  on 

If my project consists of 10,000sf of greenery but only 3,000sf is irrigated, do I need to insert 10,000sf or 3,000sf as a total area in the LEED Online form (both baseline and design case)?

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Wed Jan 7, 2015, 3:34 pm