Terra Bella Landscaping gardens for a lifetime

Andrew Goldsworthy

Rainwater Harvestingusing the EPIC system

or“What is

a Smart Garden?”

Terra Bella Landscaping is an award winning design build residential company servicing Santa Cruz county. We specialize in outdoor entertainment

areas, erosion control, and sustainable landscaping. Our staff is highly trained in all aspects of masonry,

carpentry, horticulture, and irrigation including rainwater harvesting. We use CAD and photo

rendering in our designs. Awards include Master Gardeners Smart Water 2008, awards with the

Central Coast chapter California Landscape Contractors Association for the years 2003, 2004,

2005, 2007, 2008, and 2009. Owner Nikos Lynch gives frequent seminars and

public lectures on Sustainable Gardening and Landscape Design. The companies work was featured in Sunset Magazine November 2004 issue. Nikos has been interviewed in many publications, and served as the Central Coast Chapter president of the California

Landscape Contractors Association in 2005 and 2006. 

WATER USE

CURRENT WATER SAVINGS STRATEGIES

Xeriscape landscaping – “go play in the hot playground”Legislate water saving culture and habits – “good luck!”

“Rob Peter to pay Paul” – “ That’s neighborly”Suck out new groundwater – “Great future planning”

Use misters as shower heads – “ Thank God for right guard”Cloud seed the Sierra – “Thank you midwest farmers”Move around paper allotments – “Social engineering”

Desalinate – “use 1 gal of oil to produce 160 gal of water”

Computerize Sprinklers – “Reboot !!!!”Move everyone to Seattle – “No comment”

Next Steps• Build something

sustainable

EPIC™ Pans & Chambers

CHAMBER

PAN

EPIC™ CELL

EPIC™ System

ALL PLANTS DO WELLIN SAND – AS LONG ASWATER IS AVAILABLE

All plants can grow in sand

BEGINNINGS OFISLAND PLANTCOLONIZATIONON BEACH SAND

THE “CASTAWAY”COCONUT

• Water holds a positive• charge and a negative• Charge (H2O)

• Hence, water forms a film

• The film is adhesive

• Water can defy gravity – capillary rise

Surface tension (cohesion)

Chamber

Capillary Zone(note root depth)

Saturated Zone(Water Reservoir)

Dry mold free crown zone

EPIC™ Profile

4

3

1 2

Bent Grass Roots4 months old

Minimal growth into saturated zone of fine gravel

15”

8 day old germination

Aggressive root growth right from seed!

Sand based sod root growth in only 3 months!

FREE WATERFOREVER !

Where should we look to save water?

• Bathing 80 – 31%• Bathroom Sink 8 – 3%• Cook & Drink 12 – 5%• Dishwashing 15 – 6%• Laundry 35 - 14%• Toilets 100 – 39%• Utility sink 5 – 2%

• Yearly total 93,075 Gal.

• Conventional irrigation on a mere 3000 square foot lot - 203,000 gallons per season

• Force people to use efficiency toilets and then monitor them to flush only once – save 18,000 gal./yr.

• Install efficient EPIC™ irrigation and save – 110,000 gallons /yr.

• Reuse shower water and add 29,000 gal/yr

National Average for a family of four

“The Greens With Subsurface Ground Irrigation (EPIC) used

50 – 70%Less Water With Better Turf

QualityThan Standard USGA Greens.”Dr. Bernd Leinauer, Ph D, Assistant Professor and

Extension Turf Grass specialist at NMSU, Las Cruces NM.

GOLFWEEK Super NEWS, September 3, 2004

New Mexico State University: 3 year Study

EPIC sub-surface sea-water irrigation system operating from solar pump. No salt build-ups or soil contamination using salt water directly from gulf.Irrigation recirculation by solar pump.

Al-Sammaliah Island, Abu Dhabi, UAE

PROBLEMS WITHSPRINKLERS

THE UNPLANNED,UNPREDICTABLEFOUNTAINS OFWATER WASTE

THINGS YOU DO NOT HAVE WITH EPIC

Miscalculating storm water events?

THE PHILOSOPHY AND CONSEQUENCES OF SLOPE

Sediment and debrisIncrease along withKinetic energy, Inundating curb andGutter infrastructure

Small 1” rain event overwhelmscurb and gutter system

Catch basin openings 3 sq. ft./19,400 sq. ft. area

23.6 sq. ft. of open spacePer 19,600 sq. ft. surface6% (+) per square foot

Installation of Installation of Netlon Netlon

Advanced TurfAdvanced Turf

Second year of growthBookman StacksMinneapolis, MN

Private gardens have classically been the most outstanding, not

being restricted by public demands.

Terra Bella Landscaping gardens for a lifetime