#7 Spring

We have finally had a full week of good weather! As many of you noticed on the golf course last week, we had a spring come to the surface in the middle of the 7th fairway. With the good weather and slow play this week we decided to try to alleviate this problem. We did our best to find where the spring was bubbling up from. At that point, we dug a trench down to the new drainage that was installed in the fairway a year ago. We then ran a drain line from the area of the spring to the drainage area and made the connection. The trench was then filled with gravel and resodded. The gravel in the trench should allow any increased flow from the spring follow the trench instead of coming to the surface. Unless the spring moves to another location, this should solve the problem.

Locating the new drainage on #7

 

Digging trench to make the connection

 

Backfilling the trench with pipe and gravel