Oasis Landscapes & Irrigation

About Oasis Landscapes & Irrigation

Flat Branch Creek runs low and mostly hidden through the culverts under downtown Columbia, and in a hard freeze the little park built around its daylighted stretch turns to a sheet of black ice before anyone notices the water underneath has stopped moving. Oasis Landscapes & Irrigation spends its summers coaxing water through sprinkler lines and its winters doing the opposite work — clearing the snow and ice that collects on the same driveways and walkways its irrigation systems keep green from April through September. There's real relief in a driveway plowed clean after three gray days of low cloud and short daylight, a strip of dark pavement in an otherwise white and quiet block near downtown. The crew knows where the sprinkler heads sit under each yard, which means the plow blade lifts in the right places instead of catching on a buried valve box. It's smaller-scale work than the summer irrigation season calls for, fitting a company that spends the rest of the year thinking about exactly where the water goes.