We Understand Florida’s Climate

When it comes to maintaining healthy landscapes, our climate poses a serious challenge. Residents and customers expect to be presented with thriving greenspaces – replete with ornamental flower beds and established lawns.

But efforts to irrigate and therefore protect green spaces with anything close to efficiency are often stymied by a humid subtropical climate that’s characterized by extreme temperatures and harsh storms, high humidity and erratic rainfall.

Florida’s climate also impacts efforts to move and store the large volumes of water needed to support municipal projects – fluctuations in our water tables can leave intakes sitting above the water level in your irrigation lake, and storms can wreak havoc on the electronic ‘brains’ of modern pump systems.

These hazards can (and do) trip up out-of-state operators – or less evolved manufacturers, who simply do not realize that there are complex and multifaceted challenges to irrigating in Florida’s increasingly harsh climate.

But our team works with these conditions every day. They know how to design systems to account for the systemic pressures introduced by frequent torrential downpours and lightning storms, as well as compensating for extended droughts or long periods of high humidity.

This long standing experience feeds through to every aspect of our approach, and the practices that underpin our pump system design work.

It’s been the driving force behind the development of our intelligent irrigation software - Hoover Flowguard - which is designed to maximize the efficiency of your system by monitoring a plethora of minute but important signals from your pump station(s).

Our long-standing experience with Florida's climate is also the reason that the overwhelming majority of Hoover pump stations are equipped with advanced surge suppression devices, weather-proof enclosures and class-leading filter systems.If you’re looking for a solutions provider with the advanced domain knowledge needed to support a Florida project, we’re the people to call.

Always Ahead of The Curve

Over the past four decades, we’ve stayed well ahead of the competition. As an example, we were one of the first Florida irrigation pump system designers to start leveraging HDPE pipe and VFDs. We were also one of the first to identify the advantages of disc filtration and dedicated intake lines.

The list goes on. But the best example of our commitment to innovation is Flowguard; our very own pump station management software, which we designed and built to ensure that all Hoover clients had 360-degree visibility of their pump system.

This software goes way beyond the limited telemetry systems employed by the overwhelming majority of our competitors: It‘s incredibly detailed, providing you with timestamped field data needed to stop things like rapid cycling, or a mainline break.

It sends important notifications to any internet-connected device, it manages your water windows and water usage reports, charts the performance of your system and provides the level of granularity needed to spot and diagnose burgeoning problems with your irrigation system and/or pump station – before they escalate.

But it’s also intuitive and easy to use. Dashboards let you quickly hone in on important issues, there’s a wealth of supporting information on our online portal and we'll be right by your side; teaching you to use and troubleshoot your new system.

We know this technology and approach is key to making sure that pump stations deliver efficiently – and support the success of your project.

We also know that our customers have come to depend on our irrigation management technologies – using them to slash water and utility bills, minimize repair budgets and meet increasingly stringent water use budgets.

Building For The Future

When it comes to designing mission-critical infrastructure, cutting corners can land you in a world of hurt. We can’t count the number of projects that we’ve been asked to weigh in on because key stakeholders have made the wrong decision – and opted for a solution that was never going to work.

This might be down to lack of knowledge, or exposure to bad advice from companies who are peddling a “one size fits all” solution to complex irrigation challenges. It may even be because people make the mistake of assuming that a low upfront cost represents a saving over the lifetime of a project.

Ultimately, none of that really matters. Whatever the cause, the result is eye watering repair bills, stress, a high volume of customer or resident complaints, hours of remedial work and hundreds of thousands of dollars in unnecessary expenditure.

Speaking plainly, there’s only one way to avoid this situation – you need to engage a trustworthy and reliable pump system designer that takes a long term view.

We’ve built our reputation on our ability to deliver systems with a lifespan that’s measured in decades, not years. We live in a world where 100% uptime is the expectation and we push ourselves to ensure that every customer

If that sounds like the kind of partner you’d like to work with, get in touch. A member of our team will talk through the specifics of your project and help you work out whether we can supply the pumping technology needed to support your irrigation or water delivery system.