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Water conservation plans require constant evaluation

Golf Course News, May 2002 by Snow, James T

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Brackish water or even ocean water can supplement other water sources. Bermudagrass is quite tolerant and seashore paspalum is very tolerant of high salt-content water, and these varieties allow golf courses to irrigate with brackish water that has few other uses. For example, the Old Collier Golf Club in Naples, Fla., is planting its greens, tees, fairways and roughs with two of the new seashore paspalum varieties emanating from the University of Georgia's turf-breeding program.

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Reverse-osmosis (RO) desalin- ization plants are another way to produce irrigation water from ocean water or brackish water where other supplies are not available or are very expensive. Three golf courses in Florida and one in the U.S. Virgin Islands have built RO plants in recent years, establishing good-quality, dependable and less costly supplies of irrigation water and allowing others in their communities to use the limited supply of potable water.

James T. Snow is the national director of the USGA Green Section in Far Hills, N.J. Portions of this article were adapted from the International Turf Producer's Foundation publication, "Water Right-Conserving Our Water, Preserving Our Environment."

Water conservation plans require constant evaluation

Golf Course News, May 2002 by Snow, James T

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