If you recall last week, during the last few rain events, Club Lake was very muddy (AKA high turbidity). It was a shade of chocolate milk we've not seen before. I immediately got the town involved looking for construction projects between HCC and the Town. That turned up empty. I looked at all the streams that flow into Club Lake and it wasn't until the last place I looked, that we discovered this massive sink hole and the source for all the sediment in the lake. This is located behind the golf course maintenance building, right on the property line of our neighboring residence.
The pictures don't do this justice. The hole is approximately 12' deep and about 15' diameter. As the stream on #1 gets to the maintenance building, it is piped below ground and flows below the parking lot, under Dillard Road and daylights on #10, below the tees. The underground culvert rusted and collapsed in this area, causing the surrounding soil to wash down stream. We replaced several sections of this culvert over the past 10 years and it appears all of it will need to be replaced in the near future.
Because of the sink hole, a nearby Sycamore tree started leaning into the hole. This tree was removed yesterday. With it gone, we are working with Wilson Grading to develop a solution to this issue, so we don't continually loose sediment into Club Lake.