AC & L Sprinklers Plus

About AC & L Sprinklers Plus

Every sprinkler head AC & L Sprinklers Plus buries each fall around Columbus goes quiet under the same lawns it waters all summer, capped below the frost line while the Loup Power District canal running through town locks up at its edges. The crew's winter routes trace the same residential streets they service in July -- 33rd Avenue, the blocks near the high school, the newer streets east of downtown -- but now they're behind a plow blade instead of a sprinkler gauge. Columbus sits at the meeting of the Loup and Platte rivers, and the moisture off both channels tends to thicken a snowfall here more than it does out on the drier plains to the west, so driveways need a second pass more often than not. Walks get shoveled to bare concrete and salted at the steps, the same attention once paid to a lawn's crisp edge now spent keeping a sidewalk safe underfoot. By the time the canal ice breaks up again in spring, the crew has already worked every one of those driveways a dozen times over the winter.