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A St. Helena-area winery owner has ended a multi-year fight with Napa County building and planning officials and has agreed to install a sprinkler system, despite his objections that sprinklers would damage the character of his historic, 1870s-era building.

Bill Ballentine, owner of William Cole Vineyards off Highway 29 north of St. Helena, relented to mounting pressure Napa County officials had put on him to install the fire-suppression sprinkler system, which is required by county building codes, said Mel Varrelman, a former county supervisor whos been advocating on Ballentines behalf. Installing the system cost $250,000, he said.

Napa County Supervisor Diane Dillon disputed the characterization that the county had unduly pressured Ballentine, saying he agreed to install the sprinkler system in settling a lawsuit the county filed last year against William Cole. Dillon said county staff had asked Ballentine to provide an alternative to the system that still complied with safety code requirements, but he never did.

He agreed (to that) in a stipulated court order, Dillon said. If Mr. Ballentine wants an alternative, he has to ask us for it.

Ballentine and Varrelman had argued that the fire-sprinkler requirement should never have applied to William Cole in the first place. The building was constructed out of stone in the early 1870s specifically so it wouldnt burn.

The bottom half of the building serves as the winerys tasting room, wine cave entry, and production facility, while the top half serves as the residence Ballentine shares with his wife, Jane. After purchasing the property, Ballentine invested heavily in time and money to restore the building to its precise historic state. Running a fire sprinkler system up the side of the building was an affront, he said earlier this year.

Ballentine attempted to have the property listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and submitted that request to the California Office of Historic Preservation. That would have enabled Ballentines winery to be put under state historic building regulations, which are more lax on fire suppression requirements.

Ballentine stopped operating his winery for months this year while the request was pending. Varrelman said the state declined to grant it, citing the ongoing dispute with the county government. With no other options, he agreed to install the sprinklers.

This is an expenditure of about $250,000 that is absolutely meaningless, Varrelman said. They werent going to back off. They were going to take him to court and basically run him out of business.

Ballentine was also required to widen an access road to the residential portion of the property to conform with county standards, but that required removing landscaping and trees that were put in by the famed landscape designer Thomas Church. The Ballentines have preserved and restored as much landscaping from Churchs design as possible.

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Mike Shupe demonstrates the RainCommander app, which allows users to remotely control their sprinkler systems. RainCommander was developed by Shoupe and his sister in law, Deb. (AAron Ontiveroz, The Denver Post)

At home, the smartphone is increasingly used as a remote control for lights, thermostats, TVs and other items.

So it's not surprising that a Highlands Ranch company has created a device to enable homeowners to manage their sprinkler system via a smartphone app.

But is that something you really want to do from your phone?

I'll address that later.

On the surface, adding Wi-Fi connectivity to a sprinkler system would appear to be a complex process that should require professional installation.

But ZBS Technology designed the RainCommander with a plug-and-play model in mind.

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It's not quite that simple, but the entire installation took me about 20 minutes. I was surprised by just how easy it was to install from start to finish for someone who's tech-savvy but not exactly "Tim the Toolman" handy around the house.

The $249 RainCommander is about the size of a standard sprinkler control unit and can control up to 12 zones.

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Spring showers will soon be coming to an end, giving way to hotter temperatures here in Kansas. The rising mercury, along with drier conditions, will have many of us thinking about how were going to keep our lawns from turning brown this summer.

Investing in a sprinkler or lawn irrigation system is one way to keep the green grass growing. But how much green will have to come out of your pocket to pay for one?

According to Home Advisor, a home improvement website, the average cost nationally to install a sprinkler system is $2,675, with most homeowners spending between $2,282 and $3,068. The cost is dependent, according to the website, on the size of your lawn. A larger lawn, understandably, will require more pipes and sprinkler heads to be installed.

However, the price does not go up proportionally, according to Home Advisor. That is to say the cost of a sprinkler system for a property that is twice the size of another is not necessarily twice the price. This is because sprinkler systems run in zones.

A zone is an area with pipe and approximately 5 to 10 sprinkler heads, the website states. Once your system is installed and plumbed, adding zones is less expensive than installing a whole system. If you have a large property, and cannot afford to install an entire system everywhere at one time, you can consider installing the plumbing and the system and adding zones one at a time.

The quality of the pipes, sprinkler heads and timer is another factor that is calculated into the price of a lawn watering system.

Sprinkler heads in particular get the most active use and so should be chosen well, according to Home Advisor. What you try to save now in the cost of parts may end up hurting you in the long run in repair and replacement costs.

Pete Stauffer, owner of Stauffer Lawn and Landscape, in Auburn, for the past 14 years, said one of the biggest advantages of having a sprinkler system, rather than just watering your lawn by hand with a hose, is convenience.

Its fully automated and you can set it according to the weather and the types of plants and lawn you have, he said. You can also save on water because its a lot more precise.

Watering your lawn and plants is optimal in the mornings, Stauffer said. He also said watering early in the day, when the water pressure is sometimes better, gives the water the chance to soak into the ground but then evaporate soon enough so that the chances of mold or fungus forming are greatly diminished.

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ELKHART COUNTY A sprinkler system made all the difference in an early-morning fire at Indiana Wood Products in Elkhart County.

It started around 1:30a.m. at the building on County Road 43, southeast of Middlebury.

The fire was just in one building, where they make wood products. Crews say it appears some sort of equipment caught fire.

They could see flames through the roof when they got there. Four departments responded, but thanks to the buildings sprinkler system, the fire didnt spread very far.

If they didn't have a sprinkler system, it probably would of burned down. That's what saved the building - that early control of the fire, to let it get beyond the fully involved stage, Middlebury Fire Chief Jeff Wogoman says.

Crews first doused the fire from the air. Once the fire was knocked down from the roof, they doused the inside of the building.

I figured we'd have a beast on our hands, but it went pretty smooth, Chief Wogoman says.

We used our ladder to set up and hit it from the roof, and we sent crews inside once we got the roof knocked down. Then they hit the inside of the building."

One of the fire fighters on the scene strained his back, but he's doing alright.

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