off the grassed areas. Even the Greenkeepers have to use them.
PHILLIP believes that having a reliable and flexible irrigation system is a key component to achieving the high standards of turf grass quality that is expected at The Grove. The course is fitted with a comprehensive system with pop up watering on greens, tees and fairways.
The system was designed and installed by the main contractor who were asked to also consider the irrigation requirements of the estate and gardens as well.
The pump station is fitted with four Grundfos CR Series in-line vertical multistage pumps, which are the industry standard for golf courses and estates. They are service friendly with easy access grease points, drain and priming plugs for maintenance or shut- down periods during winter The pumps are connected to Rainbird Nimbus II software, a PC based system controller with decoder units, and delivers us up to 140 cubic meters of water per hour. During the height of summer the pumps can be running flat out for seventeen hours each day.
The pump station is also fitted with a variable speed drive control unit which controls the speed at which the jockey, or lead pump, runs at. The variable speed drive will select one of the four pumps as the lead pump according to the hours worked and keep on switching between the four so that they
all will have worked a similar amount of hours.
The pump station is also fitted with a GSM Text alarm system, which will send a text message with the relevant fault such as ‘Phase Failure’, ‘Low Water’, ‘Low Pressure’, ‘Pump Fault’, ‘Incoming Water Fault’ and ‘Tank over- fill’. This allows these signals to be sent to the mobile phone of a supervisor on call during the night, receiving these messages and act as required to rectify the problem as soon as possible without losing too much of the irrigation time, this was an added benefit during the height of the hot season last year, on a free draining site not receiving adequate irrigation as planned has a sever impact on turf grass health the following day. Irrigation needs are based on calculated evapotranspration rates, and soil probes, replacing a % of what has been lost during the day. On average the E.T during the day in the height of the summer can be up to 5mm per day. Water is supplied through a borehole with an extraction licence via Three Valleys Rivers Authority, who have a pumping station near to the course and work closely with the club to fulfil their needs.
The course has its own weather station that is linked to a PC controller, allowing watering cycles to be planned and coordinated. Priority is given to greens and tees, followed by the fairways. The system cannot water all areas in one cycle, fairways are broken down into phases and run in harness
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