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With the heat of summer approaching, people are running their sprinklers more often. You can see issues develop quickly when part of the lawn in brown and the rest is green. There are many times a handyman will see sprinkler heads that have popped up but are not spraying. This tells me that the water pressure is there to force the sprinklers up but that something is obstructing the water from actually spraying.
In this case, you can turn the sprinklers off and inspect the heads for debris. You may be able just to unscrew the sprinkler head from the riser and tap out the debris, or you may be able to poke it out of the orifice with a small paper clip.
Other sprinkler heads are adjustable for spray pattern and distance. You can open the spray head wider to allow water to blow out the debris. If that doesn't work, open the small screw on the top of the sprayer head to allow a higher volume of water through the head, once you have a normal flow, you can re-adjust the sprinkler head.
If you had to remove the sprinkler head from the riser, screw it back on and align it toward the area you want watered.
It may be that debris entered your system through a break in a water line and when the pressure stops, it allows small amounts of sand and debris into the system.
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