Sprinkler, irrigation & drainage services in Cary, NC

Your local sprinkler & irrigation team in Cary

Cary is home base for us — our shop sits on Canon Gate Drive, and more of our work happens here than anywhere else in the Triangle. That means when a zone dies in Lochmere or a backyard in Preston will not drain, we are usually minutes away, and we already know the water rules, the soil, and half the irrigation systems in town because we have worked on the neighbors’.

This page collects everything we do in Cary in one place — every repair, install, and drainage service, plus the local water facts that shape how systems here should run.

What Cary homeowners deal with

Water in Cary comes with its own playbook, and it shapes how every system in town should run.

What to know about water in Cary

One thing worth knowing before you assume you have a choice: where reclaimed water reaches a property, using it is not optional. Cary’s ordinance makes it unlawful to keep irrigating on potable water 90 days after the town notifies you that reclaimed is available. Reclaimed will also never cover the whole town — the system is capacity-limited by design — so whether you have it is a question of address, not application.

Cary neighborhoods we serve

A lot of our Cary work happens in Preston, MacGregor Downs, and Lochmere, where mature landscaping hides aging lines, and in newer west Cary communities toward Green Level where builder systems need their first real tune-ups. Wherever you are in town, you are close to us.

Cary through the year

Cary’s calendar has an extra fold in it that other towns do not, because two systems run side by side. If you are on potable water, the alternate-day schedule governs your summer and the 45-day new-turf exemption is worth knowing about before you lay sod rather than after. If you are on reclaimed, you are exempt from the schedule entirely — but you pay for that freedom in nozzles.

Purple-pipe systems need their filters and nozzles cleaned earlier and more often than potable ones, because reclaimed water carries fine grit that stalls rotors weeks before a potable system would notice anything. In the reclaimed districts near the North and South Cary reclamation facilities we treat that as routine maintenance rather than as a fault, and we would rather do it in April than diagnose a dead zone in July.

Autumn is the quiet half of the year and the better half for anything that involves digging. The turf knits back together ahead of winter, the ground is still easy to work, and nothing in the yard is relying on the system while it sits opened up. Drainage corrections, zone splits and line repairs all cost the same in October as in August and disrupt considerably less.

Cary has not been under a mandatory drought restriction recently, and the reason is Jordan Lake — while towns drawing on other supplies went into restrictions through 2026, Cary stayed on its normal year-round schedule. That can change, and the ladder is worth knowing: Stage 1 cuts automated spray irrigation to one day a week, Stage 2 stops it entirely and leaves hand watering, Stage 3 stops hand watering and drip as well.

Worth setting up whether or not there is a drought: Cary’s AquaStar portal gives you hourly water use and lets you set your own usage alerts. It is the most reliable way to catch a valve stuck open or a line weeping underground, because the bill arrives a month after the damage and the alert arrives the same day. If an alert fires and you cannot see why, that is a good moment to call us rather than wait — a zone that will not shut off usually means a valve that is not seating.

Winterization is the one date that does not move. One hard freeze splits a backflow assembly, and in Cary that means both the repair and a fresh test before the town’s cycle is satisfied. Getting the blow-out done before the first serious cold snap costs a fraction of handling it afterwards.