Irrigation & Landscaping in Tonka Bay, MN

Tonka Bay is a peninsula — Lake Minnetonka wraps the city so completely that nearly every lawn here is shoreland. That geography drives everything about how we design irrigation: water that runs off a Tonka Bay lawn doesn't disappear into a storm drain, it carries sediment straight into the bay you look at from your deck.

Our peninsula playbook starts with low-precipitation rotary nozzles that apply water slower than the sandy soil absorbs it, eliminating runoff on sloped lakeside turf. Cycle-and-soak programming splits each watering into short passes, and check valves stop low-head drainage from dumping water at the bottom of every slope when zones shut off. It follows the city's own guidance — morning watering, about an inch a week — while protecting the shoreline.

Because the lake is never more than a few hundred feet away, Tonka Bay is also prime territory for lake-pump irrigation. A lake-fed system with proper intake screening can cut municipal water use dramatically for homes with big irrigated areas, and we design them to comply with DNR appropriation rules from day one.