Unless you have a plan that is followed up with a budget, you don’t have a plan—you have a prayer, and it is one that is rarely answered.
Pacific Northwest Golf Courses Temper Water Use
A financial turnaround at Cedarcrest Golf Course in Marysville, Wash., is being partially attributed to allowing greens to go brown. Golf properties in Hood River, Ore., are also scaling back water use, with Hood River Golf Course cutting its consumption by half.
Oakmont CC Removes 26 Acres of Turf for Drought-Tolerant Landscaping
The Glendale, Calif. club expects to reduce annual water consumption by 25% by using a sand-and-rock mixture with native plants, primarily in rough areas. The changes cost $2.3 million and took four months to install, with as many as three holes closed at a time.
Fluid Situation
Golf course superintendents are learning to keep their heads above water while taking a larger role in helping to manage this precious, but increasingly capricious, commodity—not only for their properties, but also for their communities and regions.
Maumelle (Ark.) Golf Courses to Start Paying for Water
Maumelle Country Club and the Country Club of Arkansas have used Lake Willastein as a water source during summer droughts or well pump failures at no cost, and are facing a resolution that could force them to pay. In Brooklyn, N.Y., Marine Park Golf Course received a $502,900 “green infrastructure grant” to build a rainwater harvesting system as part of a plan to make the course independent of the city’s water supply.
California Superintendents to Participate in Water-Use Forum
The Director of Golf Course Operations from Rancho La Quinta CC and the Golf Course Superintendent of Toscana CC will be panelists at a community meeting, co-sponsored by the city of Indio, Calif. and The Desert Sun newspaper of Palm Springs, Calif., that is being held to encourage dialogue about water problems in the Coachella Valley and explore potential solutions.
Coachella Valley Task Force Targets Golf Water Conservation
A group of golf course managers and water district officials have formed the Coachella Valley Golf Industry Water Conservation Task Force, to focus on reducing the water footprint of the Southern California area’s 124 golf courses. In Poway, Calif., city council approved a conditional use permit to allow Maderas Golf Club to start pumping ground water from its wells after being forced to stop in 2011.
Coachella Valley to Set Timetable for Recycled Water Switch
The Southern California area’s water district has only connected one new golf course to the Mid-Valley Pipeline, which distributes non-potable water, since its completion in 2009. The water district plans to set goals and establish a timetable to wean golf courses off groundwater in an effort to alleviate pressures on an overused aquifer.
A Watershed Moment at Sunset Valley GC
Creative water conservation efforts and collaboration with the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency is an award-winning combination for Certified Golf Course Superintendent Brian Green.
Seminole GC Treats Water From Deep Aquifer to Avoid Drought Woes
A desalinization system pulls 1,000 gallons a minute from the Floridian Aquifer to treat and then pours the water into a 30,000-gallon tank below the building.
Effective Water Management Strategies
The need to conserve and protect water supplies has become a given in golf course maintenance. Superintendents are finding that proactive approaches are the best ways to uphold the new industry standards.
Agent of Change
Club Profile: The Oregon Golf Club Club Location: West Linn, Ore. Club Web Site: www.theoregongolfclub.com Holes: 18 Designer: Peter Jacobsen Type: Private Number of Members: 460 Year Opened: 1991 Golf Season: Year-round Fairways: Combination of bent grass and poa annua Greens: Combination of creeping bent grass and annual blue grass Honors and Awards: Certified Golf…
Big Challenges in the Big Easy
As the Golf Industry Show makes good on its promise to return to post-Katrina New Orleans, there will be plenty of pressing topics to discuss, and potentially helpful products to consider.