The frost this morning was so heavy that it looked like it snowed! It was a beautiful site as I walked the campus this morning. Speaking of snow...There is as much as 8"-12" of snow being predicted for Sunday! Let's hope we don't get that much!
All of the 12" culvert pipe has been removed and is now being replaced with 24" pipe. This means it will be able to carry a lot more rainwater without it spilling over onto the turf. Just how much more water can it carry, you ask? If I asked 100 people how much more water does a 24" pipe carry versus a 12" pipe, 95 would probably respond, twice as much. The fact of the matter is, a 24" pipe carries 4x the amount of water a 12" pipe carries! The area of a circle is determined using the formula (3.14) (r2). Therefore, a 12" pipe has an area of 113 square inches vs. a 24" pipe at 452 square inches.
All of the pipe behind the 8th green now comes to a central point (above) that will be tied into one large catch basin. The current plan is to have a 30" pipe out fall to be sure all the water is contained and forced underground. No longer, will we deal with the situation below, which is a result of undersized pipe.
