CU ditch-water system by the numbers  CU ditch-water system by the numbers- 0.1 inches: amount of rain that automatically shuts down the watering system
- 0.23 inches: amount of water applied daily to campus turf in normal weather conditions
- 1 Toro Network 8000: the computer system that runs the entire campus watering system
- 1 weather station: at Franklin Field to control watering system
- 3 days: to use up all the water in Varsity Pond with a normal watering schedule
- 3AM: when watering starts in high vandalism areas (along routes home from bars)
- 4 headgates: from Anderson and Smith Goss Ditches, which supply the campus system
- 4 pump stations: to pump water out through the sprinkler system
- 4 cycles per night: how often sprinklers run in heavily compacted areas
- 4 ponds and 1 cistern: storage for irrigation water
- 11 hours: CU only waters between 9PM and 8AM
- 15 MPH: wind speed that automatically shuts down the watering system
- 30 minutes: time spent daily, tweaking the computer system for each night's watering
- 32 stations: per irrigation clock in the Toro 8000 system
- 57 irrigation clocks: in Toro 8000 system
- 140 acres: of CU campus watered by ditch-water
- 200 acres: total campus land in Boulder
- 59 staff: working on water/turf during the summer
- 60 days: time between fertigation cycles.
- 100 percent: of the main campus watered with ditch water
- 270 days: number of days a year CU waters
- 400 gallons/minute: size of pump at Newton Court
- 700 gallons/minute: size of pumps at Varsity pond and the Research Park
- 2000 gallons/minute: size of pump at 28th and Colorado
- 50,000: number of sprinkler heads in the entire system
- $50-80,000: cost of each of 4 pump stations.
- $440,000: amount of money CU saves each year by using ditch water
- 80,000,000: gallons of ditch water CU uses in a normal year
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