After the golf course was closed for 2 days of rain and 1.5 days of flood damage clean up and repair, I believe we can consider ourselves very fortunate to have the golf course open for play and have the damage limited to out of play areas for the most part.
The ongoing flood repair work that has been completed over the past few years has paid of by minimising damage and closures to the golf course.
I would like to give a BIG THANK YOU to the dedicated Turf Care Team who worked through the storm and flood in less than desirable weather, at times risking personal safety to protect the golf course from flood damage. Almost the entire staff of 75 people worked in inclement weather and then came in on scheduled days off and worked 10+ hour days to have the golf course ready as soon as possible for members enjoyment .
Although we were able to get the golf course open quickly following this flood, there remains a significant amount of clean up and repair work that will continue for a number of weeks. In order to complete this repair work, some regular scheduled detailing on the golf course will not be completed in order to schedule staff to get this extra work done
On another note, all Priddis Greens staff send out well wishes to our counterparts at the numerous golf courses across Southern Alberta that are dealing with horrific damage to their golf courses caused by the floods of 2013. Priddis Greens is doing our part to assist other golf courses by lending them pumps, equipment, and volunteer to help with such tasks as chainsaw work removing tree debris. This assistance will hopefully provide others with a hand too get their operations back up running again sooner.
The following photo's were taken during and after the flood at Priddis Greens:
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| WATER STREAMING ACROSS 7 HAWK FAIRWAY |
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| WATER STREAMING ACROSS 6 HAWK FAIRWAY |
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| HIGH VOLUMES OF WATER, CATCH BASINS AND DRAINAGE COULDN'T KEEP UP |
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| EXCESS SURFACE WATER ERODING SAND FROM SLIT DRAINAGE |
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| SAND BAGGING TO PREVENT FURTHER DAMAGE. EROSION TO DRAINAGE PIPE AND TRENCH |
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| 3 HAWK GREEN UNDER WATER FROM THE POND OVER FLOWING |
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| EXCESS SURFACE WATER ERODING AROUND DRAINAGE OUTLETS |
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| PONDS OVER FLOWING ACROSS CART PATHS |
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| EROSION WIPED OUT OVER 50 BUNKERS. SAND, GRAVEL AND PIPE DAMAGED. |
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| NEW OVER SIZED CULVERTS WORKING HARD BUT WORKING WELL TO PROTECT STREAM BANKS |
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| PRACTICE BUNKER ERODED |
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| PUMP HOUSE UNDER WATER(PUMPS PULLED AND IN FOR REPAIR |
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| STAFF REPAIRING |
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| 15 HAWK POND OVER FLOWING - PATH UNDER 8" OF WATER |
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| ACCUMULATION OF SILT IN BUNKERS |
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| EROSION / SLUMPING OF SOIL ON THE HILLSIDE WEST OF 11 RAVEN TEE |
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