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Square Miles of Irrigation
Sentinel™: More Control, Less Water
How often have you heard or
used the expression, “In a perfect
world…”? Well, just 12 miles south
of Denver, one community has been
taking exciting steps to create the
perfect place in which to live.
Highlands Ranch, Colorado, is
a 22,000-acre “master planned
community”—a residential area
specifically conceived and developed
to provide an exceptional quality
of life. Highlands Ranch features
new neighborhoods of beautiful
homes and apartments within an
outstanding school district, and it
offers an unprecedented range of
green spaces and facilities that cater
to its residents’ active lifestyles:
parks, ball fields, playgrounds,
hiking/biking trails and much more.
“Our residents literally do everything
here,” says Rick Schultz, “tennis,
football, baseball, softball, soccer,
lacrosse and even rugby.” Schultz
is Operations Administrator of the
The Sentinel™ Central-Control system allows programming changes to be made in the field using
handheld radios.
Metro Districts of Highlands Ranch
Parks, Recreation and Open Space.
“We have 19 parks right now, with a total of 25 planned,”
Schultz explains, “so we have a few more to be built. It’s really
quite large.”
Photo: Sherry Eppers
Relying on Toro
From the earliest days of the Highlands Ranch planned
community, the developers anticipated the need for a good
integrated irrigation system. However, their original central
control system was hard-wired, which posed problems. Bob
Claiborne, Parkways Supervisor for the Metro Districts, made
the decision to go with a radio control system.
“We had literally miles of wires running from our shop where
the computer was located out to these controllers at different
points in the field,” recalls Schultz. “You can imagine the
problems we had. Our community was growing
rapidly with a tremendous amount of new
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Irrigated Greenbelts enhance the roadsides in the Highlands
Ranch master-planned community near Denver, Colorado.
(continued on pg. 4)
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