Green lawns of tomorrow, and a correction

The highlight story of the weekend was about Mayor Mary Verner’s proposed restrictions for using your home sprinkler system this summer .

Here’s some of the detail, from Sunday’s story (by Jonathan Brunt). Photos by Rajah Bose.

• The ordinance would outlaw the use of sprinklers from noon to 6 p.m. from May through September – times when much of the water sprayed on a lawn evaporates before hitting the soil.

• The proposal also would permit odd-numbered addresses to water only on odd-numbered days and even-numbered addresses on even days.

• Watering by hand with a hose or can would not be regulated.

• Exemptions to the use of sprinklers include recreational use by children and watering for new plantings.

There’s a bit of a discussion going on at News is a Conversation on this topic.

Another question from the morning meeting - How do you program your automatic sprinkler system for odd-even?

One reader wrote a comment on the NIAC topic to talk about her parents who lived in Hamilton, MT - “They had an odd address so had an extra day of watering on months with 31 days in them.”

For the record

There was an editing error on Sunday page D8, in which we mixed up two aerospace terms by inverting the digits. What appears in this photo is a B-25, and below is the original caption from the photographer.

“I’ve got kind of an attachment to these. I was a gunner in B-52s,” says Kirk Mohor as he gets a low angle shot of a propeller of a B-25 during an event outside XN Air’s hangar at Spokane International Airport Monday, June 23, 2008. The event featured the “Wings of Freedom” tour and was put on to raise money for the Spokane Armed Forces and Aerospace Museum. Rajah Bose, The Spokesman-Review.