Wayne and Baldemar are doing a great job with this project. While it looks like Hap is working, he is actually just waiting for someone to throw him his ball.
With the Fairway Villas (condos) starting some exterior renovation work, we are tying their gutter drainage into the golf course infrastructure below the 1st hole. A major principal of drainage is ensuring that water from surrounding areas isn’t being routed to or settling in the area you want to remain dry and firm. For this project, the architect was simply going push all that water from the condo roofs onto the first fairway, which is unacceptable from my perspective. That’s thousands and thousands of gallons of water after every rain event. Therefore, we are working on keeping the water moving underground, where it can get to the creek on the right side of the hole. This might require us at some point, to put larger pipe below the 1st fairway. This season, we’ll be able to monitor how much water is coming from the condos and whether or not our infrastructure is adequate.
Above, irrigation is being installed around the 9th green.
Although Hap is not a certified Motorola Repairman, he lent a helping paw today.
There are so many random responsibilities that Superintendents handle on a daily basis. As an example, Club wide, we have close to 60 Motorola two-way radios. Today and tomorrow, a representative from Motorola is onsite to reprogram all department's radios and service our repeater, an instrument used by the radios to communicate. Our repeater is located all the way up on Upper Brushy Face, in the Town of Highlands utility building next to the water tank. A radio repeater is receiver/ transmitter that receives and transmits signals, so 2-way radios can cover longer distances. Being located so high, helps cover even longer distances. Our radios have the ability to be heard as far away as Cashiers or Scaly Mountain.