With the warmer weather and unfrozen soil, we have taken advantage by doing many drainage projects this past week. We did some work on the fairway bunkers on both courses. On #1 Weiskopf and #8 Devlin there were several sink holes from improperly installed drainage. The drains were installed to shallow to the surface, not enough drainage rock and too big of rock was used in the past. You'll see in the pictures below, a small break, a crushed area or clog can create a sinkhole or a wet spot. We fixed 21 of these alone on the fairways of 1 and 8. We added some blowout points so when the irrigation is live in the spring we can clean the lines out even more.
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| Shallow lines lead to crushed pipe and holes here in #8 Devlin fairway |
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| Clogged pipe…Not enough rock was used and not pea gravel |
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| Very Shallow….We added blowout points for in the spring |
Sam that should really help with drying up the fairway after rains.
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