Irrigation Repair in Ocala and Marion County, Florida

Ocala Irrigation Repair connects you with a local irrigation technician for sprinkler and drip system repair anywhere in Ocala and Marion County. The diagnostic visit is $75 to $150, and every repair after that comes from a published range: sprinkler heads $15 to $50 installed, valves $150 to $350 repaired, controllers $100 to $250 repaired or $200 to $600 replaced, broken lines $100 to $300 for a lateral or $200 to $600 for a mainline, rain sensors $100 to $250, a zone coverage fix $100 to $275, a full inspection or tune-up $90 to $200, and a drip conversion $250 to $800 per zone. You get a diagnosis first and approve the price before any work starts.

Marion County is not a generic Florida sprinkler market. Most of the county, including Ocala, currently waters one day a week under a St. Johns River Water Management District order, which means a stuck valve or a lost controller schedule costs you a whole week of dry lawn, not just a day. A large share of properties, especially the horse farms and acreage north and west of Ocala, run their irrigation off a private well, which brings a different set of failures than a municipal-water system, and we will tell you plainly when a problem is on the pump or well side instead of the sprinkler side. And the county’s own fertilizer ordinance, which names Silver Springs and Rainbow Springs by name in its water-body setback rules, is a reminder that what you do with irrigation water here ends up somewhere specific.

What we fix

• Irrigation repair: the general call when something is wrong and you’re not sure what, diagnosed on site.
• Sprinkler head replacement: broken, sunk, geysering, or badly aimed heads, replaced and re-adjusted.
• Irrigation valve repair: a zone that won’t turn on, won’t shut off, or a valve that’s stuck or leaking at the valve box.
• Sprinkler timer and controller repair: a blank display, a lost program, or a controller that won’t hold a schedule.
• Broken line and leak repair: a wet spot, a hissing sound underground, or a water bill that jumped for no obvious reason.
• Rain sensor installation: the device Florida law requires on every automatic system, installed and calibrated.
• Zone coverage fix and adjustment: dry patches, overspray, or a zone that never got tuned right in the first place.
• Drip irrigation: bed and landscape zones converted to drip line, or an existing drip system repaired.
• Irrigation pump and well-system troubleshooting: honest diagnosis of what’s happening on the pump side, with a referral to a well contractor when that’s the actual fix.

Marion County’s one watering day, and the exception you need to know

Since May 2026, St. Johns River Water Management District has had Marion County, including the City of Ocala, under a Phase III Extreme Water Shortage order. In plain terms: odd-numbered addresses (or no address) water Saturday only, even-numbered addresses water Sunday only, nonresidential properties water Tuesday only, and irrigation is prohibited between 8 a.m. and 6 p.m. every day. No more than three-quarters of an inch of water per zone, and no more than one hour per zone on your day.

Here’s the part that trips people up: Dunnellon and The Villages are not on that schedule. Both fall under Southwest Florida Water Management District instead, which runs its own Modified Phase III order, extended through March 2027, on a completely different pattern: one day a week assigned by the last digit of your street address (0 or 1 waters Monday, 2 or 3 Tuesday, 4 or 5 Wednesday, 6 or 7 Thursday, 8 or 9 Friday), with permitted hours of midnight to 4 a.m. or 8 p.m. to 11:59 p.m., and a wider window for properties an acre or larger. If you’re calling from a Dunnellon address and going by the Saturday/Sunday rule you heard applies “in Marion County,” you’re on the wrong schedule, and a controller that looks broken may just be programmed correctly for a district you didn’t know you were in.

On a one-day-a-week schedule either way, a broken valve or a lost program is not a minor inconvenience. Miss your window and the lawn goes another seven days dry. That’s the practical reason we treat controller and valve calls with real urgency here, not because the parts are different from anywhere else in Florida.

The rain sensor Florida law actually requires

Florida Statute 373.62 requires every automatic landscape irrigation system to have technology installed, maintained, and operated that inhibits or interrupts the cycle when there’s been enough rain, a rain sensor or a soil moisture shutoff device. There’s no exception for an older system: whenever it was installed, it needs a working device today. Licensed irrigation contractors are required to test that device on every job and install or repair one if it’s missing, before doing anything else. If your rain sensor is cracked, disconnected, or was never reconnected after a storm, that’s not optional maintenance, it’s a code requirement, and it’s one of the cheaper things on this site to fix at $100 to $250 installed.

Wells, pumps, and honest diagnosis

A meaningful share of Marion County properties, particularly the horse farms and larger-acreage lots around Reddick and the rural edges of Marion Oaks, irrigate off a private well rather than a municipal supply. That changes what a “system won’t start” or “pressure keeps dropping” call actually means. A sprinkler technician can diagnose and fix a stuck valve, a bad solenoid, or a controller that isn’t firing a zone. A pump that won’t prime, a well that’s lost yield, or a pressure tank that’s waterlogged is a different trade. We diagnose on site, and when the problem traces back to the pump or the well itself, we’ll tell you that plainly rather than replacing parts on the sprinkler side that were never broken. Read more on the irrigation pump and well-system troubleshooting page.

Marion County’s springs and the fertilizer connection

Marion County has adopted its own ordinance (No. 08-35) regulating fertilizer use on urban landscapes, and it names two water bodies specifically: no fertilizer may be applied within 75 feet of the ordinary high water line of Silver Springs, Silver Run, Rainbow Springs, or the Rainbow River. The same ordinance sets a 100-foot no-fertilizer buffer around any sinkhole with a surface opening, a real consideration in a county with karst ground and a documented sinkhole record. This is a fertilizer ordinance, not a separate irrigation ordinance, but it explains why a well-run sprinkler system matters here beyond your own yard: overwatering that pushes fertilizer into a ditch or a drainage conveyance is exactly what the county is trying to prevent, and a system with dialed-in coverage (see zone coverage fix and adjustment) uses less water and puts less runoff where it isn’t supposed to go.

How a service call works

1. You tell us the symptom and the address. What the system is doing, which zones are affected, and whether it runs off city water or a well.

2. We schedule the diagnostic visit ($75 to $150), which covers the trip and the first real look at the system: valve box, controller, and the affected zone.

3. We diagnose before we quote. No guessing off a phone description. You get a straight number, repair-vs-replace laid out honestly when both are real options, and you approve it before anything happens.

4. We fix it, most often the same visit. Heads, valves, wiring, and rain sensors are usually on the truck. A controller or a larger line repair may need a return trip, and we’ll tell you that up front.

5. We test it with you, run the affected zone, confirm coverage and shutoff, and leave you with a plain answer on what was wrong and what to watch for.

Full price ranges for every repair are on the pricing page.

Where we work

Ocala is the hub, and we cover Marion County’s mix of retiree communities, satellite towns, and rural acreage:

• Belleview: south Marion County, along US 441 and US 301.
• Dunnellon: on Southwest Florida Water Management District’s schedule, not St. Johns.
• Silver Springs Shores: the bedroom community southeast of Ocala.
• Summerfield: near The Villages, home to Del Webb’s Spruce Creek communities.
• On Top of the World: the large 55+ community west of I-75.
• Marion Oaks: the deed-restricted community toward the Sumter County line.
• Reddick: horse-farm country north of Ocala.

Get a fast quote

Found us searching “sprinkler repair near me” or “irrigation repair near me” from anywhere in Marion County? Send the symptom, which zones are affected, and whether the system runs off city water or a well, and you’ll get a straight answer on scheduling and cost. Read more about how we operate or check the FAQ first.