Cedar Hills, Utah
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Sprinkler repair for Cedar Hills yards on the city's metered secondary water, from clogged filters and broken heads to leaks, bad zones and spring start-up problems.
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Sprinkler Repair in Cedar Hills
Cedar Hills runs its own pressurized irrigation. The water comes from a city well, the American Fork River and the Central Utah Project, and it is untreated, so it is not for drinking. It usually turns on around April 15 and shuts off around October 15, though the city can shift that in a dry year and has floated a shorter season. Since July 1, 2025, you pay for what you use.
That change put sprinkler problems on the bill. A broken head spraying the street, a valve that weeps all night or a zone that runs twice as long as it needs to now costs real money, and use above 150 percent of your allotment hits a higher rate in drought. The city's AquaTrax app lets you watch your use, which is a quick way to spot a leak.
The water itself is part of the job. Secondary water here is not filtered city-wide, so the city tells owners to clean the connection filter monthly and the filters in the heads at least every other month. Clogged nozzles can leave brown spots that look like a bad system when the real problem is a dirty screen. Pull a screen and look at it before you buy new heads.
Cedar Hills calls itself Utah's mile-high city, a family town on the bench at the mouth of American Fork Canyon where even a short retaining wall needs a permit, the secondary water is metered, and hillside lots in The Cedars and Canyon Heights follow their own grading rules.
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The Cedar Hills challenges
Untreated secondary water carries grit. When the main filter clogs, pressure drops across the whole yard and the far heads barely pop up. When head screens clog, you get dry arcs and brown half-moons. Ten minutes with a filter is often the cheapest fix there is.
Not every brown patch is a sprinkler problem. The city warns that bill bug larvae chew lawn roots and leave spots that look like drought. Tug on the dead grass. If it lifts like a loose rug and the roots look chewed, more water will not help.
The city asks owners to leave their individual shut-off valve open over winter so the line drains, then close it before the spring start. Get that backward and lines can freeze and split. If water still runs a week after shutdown, the city wants a call, since it may be a cross-connection.
On a sloped bench lot, water from the top heads runs downhill and floods the bottom of the zone while the top stays dry. Lines drain out through the lowest head after every cycle, too. Check valves, matched nozzles and shorter cycles fix most of it.
The J&H approach
We turn on each zone and watch it work. We look for low pressure, heads that tilt or stick, spray hitting the house or the street, and dry spots. You see what we see, and you get a price before we fix anything.
A broken head is often a symptom. We check the filter, the pressure and the valve behind it. On slopes we add check valves so lines stop draining out the low head. Bad wiring and stuck valves get traced and fixed, not just bypassed.
Once the system works, we set run times by zone, sun and slope, and split long runs into shorter cycles so water soaks in. Beds move to drip where it makes sense. The goal is a green yard on less metered water.
What homeowners say
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