Pond maintenance can often be a time consuming, costly task. In particular, ponds that are used for irrigation water require certain treatment at various times of the year.
Many aquatic herbicides cannot be used in irrigation ponds if the water is being used to irrigate turf, as the herbicide may cause damage to the grass. This is the case for our 3 acre irrigation pond that lies between hole #12 and hole # 17. Now that we are finished irrigating due to the wet weather, we are treating this pond with an aquatic herbicide to eliminate the aquatic weeds present. This will help to clear the pond from algae and weed growth accumulated throughout the summer and start the season next year with a much cleaner pond.
This winter the golf course maintenance team will also be working to manually remove grasses growing into the water from the shoreline of many pond edges. As well as cattail removal in the pond on hole #4.
