Video Course Update for the week of 7-28-14

A little video course update for your viewing pleasure this week.  Continue to check blog for regular updates as well as the twitter feed on the right hand side of the page.  Sometimes includes information that is not posted on the blog.

Rain and the irrigation lake

Over the past few days, we have applied the most irrigation to our course for the season to date.  Lower humidity, less rainfall and fairway/tee aeration caused an increase in usage.  We attempt to manage our lake recharging using city water very judiciously because of the cost to the club and waste of natural resource if it flows over the spillway and goes to New Orleans down the Mississippi.  The 1" of rain saved the property over 3,000,000 gallons of water plus will probably recharge our lake for usage later in the week when we begin to dry out again.  Every day we do not run the lake tap as we call it is a day of savings.  For your information, we pay 2.57660 plus 17% taxes per 100 cubic feet of water which is 748 gallons of water at a cost of .00403024 cents per gallon.  Million gallons of water is $ 4,030.  During the heaviest irrigation cycles, we can run through a million gallons in 3-4 days.

Lake is usually full when it reaches the bottom of the spillway that leads from the lake near 15 tee.

Water is still rising on the spillway leading from the lake on 15 but has room for more water.

10 Lake Algae

We've had the worst algae bloom in #10 lake over the last week that I've seen since I've arrived at Glen Echo.  We apply a microbe product to help clean up the leaf/organic debris that accumulates in the lake.  I was late in getting the microbes placed in the lake this season.  The staff did some mechanical removal of the algae today using a rope which was pulled along the surface of the water moving the algae to the spillway end where it was then pulled out of the lake with rakes and hauled to the dump.

Staff pulling the ripe across the surface.

Picking up the material so it can be hauled away.

Final look this evening.  It looks much better.