About the Principal
Charlotte Harms has designed, installed, and maintained commercial
and residential landscape irrigation systems along the Northern Front
Range since 1972, and has been a certified backflow tester since 1990.
She is certified by the leading water-wise associations in the area,
is an active member of the landscaping community, and continues to
educate area homeowners and landscape professionals through classes,
articles, and presentations.
Certifications
- Irrigation Association: Certified Landscape Auditor.
- Green Industries of Colorado: Best Management Practices.
- American Backflow Prevention Association (ABPA): Backflow Prevention
Assembly Tester.
- American Society of Sanitary Engineers (ASSE): Backflow Prevention
Assembly Tester.
- Colorado Department of Agriculture: Qualified Pesticide Supervisor. 1998 to 1996.
Memberships
- High Plains Landscape Council
- Colorado Water Wise Council
- Colorado Backflow Prevention Association
- Chair of the Northern Colorado Subchapter of the Colorado Backflow Prevention Association.
Recent Classes and Presentations
- Taught "Water-Wise Sprinkler Design" at Aims Community College Continuing Education in Fort Collins (ongoing), the Boulder County Extension, Broomfield County Extension, and Laramie, Wyo. County Extension
- Presented "The Right Hook-Up: How to winterize irrigation systems without damaging the backflow assembly," to Ewing Irrigation in Fort Collins, Colorado, September, 2005, and to the Colorado Backflow Prevention Association Annual Conference and Trade Show, November, 2005.
- Presented "Landscape Irrigation: Water Quality, Water Use" to the City of Greeley Environmental Series for Professionals in Greeley, Colorado, February 23, 2006.
Recent Articles
- Colorado Backflow Prevention Association Newsletter, Jan. 2006, "The Impact of Injecting Compressed Air into Backflow Assemblies."
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