You turn the sprinklers on, the heads pop up, water sprays where it’s supposed to, and still your lawn starts sending water toward the sidewalk like it has somewhere better to be. That’s the annoying part about lawn runoff. The system can look like it’s working fine on the surface, but the yard is still losing water, still wasting coverage, still making a mess in all the wrong places. And this is where a lot of homeowners get stuck. They assume runoff only happens when something is broken. Not really. Sometimes the sprinkler system is technically functioning, every zone running, every head spraying, controller doing its thing, but the water is being applied faster than the soil or slope can handle. That’s when the lawn starts shedding water instead of absorbing it. Runoff Does Not Always Mean the Sprinkler System Is Broken A sprinkler system can be fully operational and…
