Calculating Total Irrigation Run Time:  Calculating Total Irrigation Run Time (TIRT) is perhaps the most important concept and field skill in irrigation and water management.  Completion of this workshop ensures your ability to program an irrigation controller from field observations without relying on charts and reference websites. Pull out some paper and a calculator for this critical class.

• Determine Plant Water Requirements, Plant Available Water, and Precipitation Rates
• Apply Distribution Uniformity to the irrigation scheduling process
• Establish an irrigation schedule without relying on charts and reference calculators
• Adjust irrigation controllers to adapt to real conditions on the ground and in a drought
• This workshop is targeted to Professionals and is required if using the CRLA Series as a path to Watershed Wise Landscape Professional Certification
• Suggested prerequisites include: CRLA General Public Series (six classes) and the CRLA Professional Irrigation Auditing and Distribution Uniformity workshop
• A good class to follow this one is the irrigation controller programming class: Understanding Your Irrigation Timer
• 180 Min. webinar or in-person workshop