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GolfCommission | 2011-02-23 | 3 | Matt Wisely: "We've had some rain. Year to date, or for the season to date, we're at 14 inches. I put together a little report last week, and were at 21.5 inches of rain and we're at 2.18 inches of rain for February. The weekend was little hectic, we're expecting some more rain starting tomorrow afternoon including snow. l'll believe it when I see it, but everyone keeps saying it's going to happen. They're saying the storm is moving in faster than they anticipated." Chair Sullwold asked: "Is there, in your opinion, anything that can be done with the sloughs and the drainage system without major capital improvements that would improve the drainage off the course?" Matt Wisely: "In my opinion, no. We've done some work in the sloughs ourselves, taking the back hoe out and clearing the drain openings, which has helped actually quite a bit this year compared to last year. I think what we're experiencing this year compared to last year, last year we got eight inches in five days and we had six inches in December and basically we had all of January to dry out. Now we've gotten three more inches in February and the drainage is actually working, it's just working very slowly, and the month of January really helped us out by not having much rain and two weeks of temperatures in the 80's and lots of wind so we dried out pretty quickly. The drainage sloughs are doing what they're supposed to do to a certain extent. We're also experiencing some areas where the course is settling. In fact, number three fairway on the South Course, right around 200 yards, is a giant cavern that just appeared." Chair Sullwold: "Do you fill that in with dirt, what do you do?" Matt Wisely responded: "Yes, essentially, it's still not to the point that it's like the Grand Canyon, but it's sloped off enough to where it's very noticeable now. It almost looks like it's supposed to be there. It is even all the way through the fairway, and then you get to the bunker and it's gone. I don't know if number three is part of the landfill, I don't know what's underneath that part of the fairway that would cause it to liquify, but I know that the tee project we worked on 13, some of the fill we bought it has already liquified just by the amount of rain we've had. Fortunately, it's not in the middle of the tee or anywhere where it's going to affect it." Chair Sullwold: "When we played the North Course the last time, I was walking along the path along the slough on the left side of the 8th hole and it's not working real good." Matt Wisely: "No, it's been like that since I got here two years ago where the birds are walking across the water. They need to be dredged in order for us to efficiently move water the way we're supposed to." Matt Wisely: "We've been working on anticipating some weather, we had Public Works out before the last big storm to suck out some of the water from the pond on five north, so we had a little bit more of an area to fill up before it starts pumping again. We aerified the north greens with a solid tine, we aerified the south greens on Monday with a solid tine to help wash some of the salt and impurities out of the greens. We're trying to be proactive, including clearing greens.' 3 Golf Commission Minutes -Wednesday, February 23, 2011 | GolfCommission/2011-02-23.pdf |