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“Golf clubs should be seen to be leading the way by complying with the groundwater regulations”


ANDY CAMPBELL, Golf Courses and Estates Manager, Carden Park


the costs into context: “For a system installation cost of around £15,000, clubs are investing in something that is priced about the same as the average mower, but that will last longer. Maintenance costs are low too at about £500 a year.”


Clubs now begin to realise their need to comply, Earley believes. “Courses want to be seen to be environmentally conscious.”


Clubs can choose to have an underground treatment plant, such as the ClearWater system from Course Care, or an above-ground system such as the Waste2Water, Osprey and Hydroscape processes. Visual amenity and noise considerations will weigh more heavily with some clubs


than with others but after looking at all three systems, Campbell saw an above- ground option as a benefit. “It’s easy to service and I can see what’s going on.” As with the other leading options, the microbial substrate has to be replenished regularly - a top- up of 0.5l a week is fine - and is part of the weekly service programme for the system. Peter Roberts, Managing


Director of Hydroscape, believes it’s in clubs’ own hands to avoid costly penalties over breaches of the act. “Golf courses must act sensibly,” he says. “They should be concerned about the law rather than panic about it.'”


“Even when the Environment Agency visits a


club about a waste management issue, it will give perhaps a few weeks to rectify matters,” he points out. “Only if their words are ignored are the EA likely to get tougher.” “We are at the same stage with this legislation as we were with health and safety ten years ago. People think: ‘I don't need to worry about this’.”


“Under the act, every golf club that has not installed appropriate waste water treatment measures should be contacting the Environment Agency to grant them permission to allow


contaminants to go to ground. Whether or not the EA does so will depend on a number of factors. But clubs that say ‘we'll wait’ are taking the risk that they do not suffer a spillage.” Compliance with the


groundwater regulations act has to be taken seriously, agrees David Mears, Managing Director of Course Care, and a long-established supplier of turnkey waste


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