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since January 2006. What this means is that the club are able have town water available just four nights a week and have to use the bore water the other nights, if needed. All the water allocation goes on the prioritised surfaces - greens are the highest priority, followed by the tees (which receive only bore water). I asked Jim what his immediate concerns were. “Our fairways,” he
responded. “We have a two grass system on the fairways - we are probably the only golf course left on sand belt that does that - common couch and winter grass. Last October the winter grass died out early because of the drought; the couch was there but, because we had only 2mm of rain in October and nothing afterwards, it just went backwards. In March/April, when we would normally have 100% couch
cover, we were lucky to have ten or twenty percent. The fairways were garbage.” “I don't mind us being
dry,” he continued, “but we do need a little bit of water to keep things ticking along. We don’t produce a green golf course, and we never have; we are not here to have perfect green fairways, that is not the philosophy of our place. But, in times of drought, you still need some water to try and keep that balance, to keep the plant surviving. At the moment it’s not surviving.”
As a consequence, during this year’s peak summer months, the club will be transporting in a megalitre of class A recycled water per week at a cost of A$16,000(£7,000) per megalitre. “The aim is to try and keep the fairways alive,” explained Jim. “Over the summer it’s going to cost us A$200,000, but it’s a lot
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