Thursday 1:06
Good afternoon,
I wanted to send out a notice to you all on our main well that fills the lake on 16. Monday morning, we noticed the well was not filling up the lake on 16. After further inspection that it wasn’t an electrical issue from our electrician, we called Doyle Well Drilling. They are the folks nine years ago that went all in for us when the motor died the last time. They arrived Monday night at 8:00 pm to do their testing and inspection. Tuesday the new electric pump was ordered out of Muskegon. They are due to arrive anytime today to start pulling all of the well casing and pipe out and to get to the motor and replace it.
The backup well in the pump station has been running but it doesn’t do much to help. That needs some serious capital dollars to get it up to working condition. We have been hand watering greens as needed, running some over head sprinklers in the am here and there but it’s now rock hard out there. We should be filling the lake by midday tomorrow and will start watering as soon as possible. We will have some lasting “scars” from all of the dry areas around the course, especially by fairway trees.
Today is
our once-a-year fairway fertilizer application and we’ll see some tire marks
from the tractor and golf carts around the course for sure. We’ll also get those really stark rough dead
areas from carts going over the stressed grass.
It will all recover, we have been through times like this many times
dealing with wells, pump stations and mother nature, all part of keeping the
course dry over the weekend and being on a sand hill. Looks like a 80% chance of .27 tomorrow.
Steve
