EarthGolf

This is an interesting environmental note. The course had been using gray water to irrigate its fairways.

Sales and marketing director Tiffany Nelson said the root structure on the course has deteriorated since 2000, when it stopped irrigating with Central Arizona Project water and switched to reclaimed water.

The reclaimed water has high salt content, which drains into lakes on the course and then is pumped back onto the course for irrigation. Nelson said plans are to install a new drainage system next year, which will filter out the salt.

It will require all of the fairways to be resodded. The course will reopen on August 28th.

The future of many golf courses lies in the use of reclaimed water for irrigation. The impacts to turf are likely to be varied depending on the quality of the water, but the use of reclaimed water is a win-win situation for both the golf course, which gets a price break and a more reliable water supply, and the government, which generates income of off lightly treated water and doesn’t use the potable water supply for irrigation.

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