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On News Channel 10 with Marion Gold, URI
CE GreenShare Coordinator and
Director of the Cooperative
Extension Education Center
Drip
Irrigation
Filmed at the URI East Farm Demonstration Vegetable Garden,
this segment aired
in July 2004 and featured the drip
irrigation systems recently
installed in the garden.
In the segment, Plant Pro Marion
Gold was joined by Master Gardener Dick Perreault.
For information about this segment see the Plant
Pro
website and news channel 10 website www.turnto10.com. Also,
refer to our healthy
landscapes factsheet Water
Wisely.

Master
Gardener Dick Perreault explains the various parts
of a drip irrigation system to Plant Pro Marion Gold.
Some of the key elements of a drip irrigation system
he is pointing out include the mainline, filter, valve,
automatic control timer, and pressure regulators. There
are three zones or submain lines, each with their own
pressure regulator. A backflow preventer is
also an essential part of a drip
irrigation
system,
and in
this
particular
garden it is located at the main water source and
is not part of the riser shown here in the garden.

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Some of the newly installed drip tubing at the East Farm
Demonstration Vegetable Garden.

Dick Perreault discusses the various drip irrigation
system designs used in the garden.

Recently
installed drip tubing at East Farm, being fed by a
plastic submain line.
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A
mister, one of the several types of drip irrigation
emitters used in the Demonstration Vegetable Garden. |
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