Drainage Installation

Even though we are starring in the face of a snow storm that could bring 6"-10" inches of accumulating snowfall to our golf course tomorrow, we are still trying to take advantage of the warmest weather of the season.  We are fortunate to have a mini-excavator on rent and we have plans to install over 1,000 feet of drainage in the next four weeks.   We began with a small area behind the chipping green that was not draining properly. 

 

Last winter we installed drainage around the back side of the driving range tee and underneath the newly installed ornamental beds.  The outlet from that drainage system was left at the slope behind the chipping green, and this area became a problem during the golfing season.

We used 3" diameter perforated drain pipe layed on top of 3" of gravel and topped with 6"-8" of additional gravel and about 6" of and 80/20 mix containing sand and peat moss.

 Surprise!  We found and 8" drain line that runs from the upper practice putting green into a larger drain system that eventually finds its way to the upper pond on #9.  We ran our drain right into the larger 8" drain and started backfilling.

 The sod we removed on Monday was returned and placed over the drain.  We work off of plywood to protect the existing turf.

 

 

 

The sod is tamped with a plate tamper and touched up by hand. Hopefully, you cannot even tell that we were here.  Depending on weather, we plan to begin installing drainage on the right side of #2 fairway this week.