Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens

The Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens will purchase and install programmable central control for water management of its living plant collections. This state-of-the-art system includes four wireless radio-controlled field satellites, flow sensors to control irrigation to widely spaced gardens, a wireless weather station to input data to the central computer, and a self-cleaning filtration system for on-site well water. Automated central control will save time and money on irrigation system maintenance by quickly reporting deviations from system parameters and by pinpointing problems such as line breaks and valve failures. This project is part of the garden’s environmental sustainability initiative and will reduce water usage by 25 percent over the current manual system.