Golf The Leaderboard - Four golf courses getting it right
Belas Clube de Campo, Portugal - Designed to take maximum advantage of rainfall, surface run-off and throughflow from irrigation cycles, Belas Clube de Campo, near Lisbon, diverts water back to the borehole
local canal water pumped onto the site. They have also upgraded their pumphouse and computer system, and replaced 360 degree sprinklers with variable heads, showing that water conservation runs deep at this facility.
fed lakes demonstrating a high rate of water reuse and an admirable attitude in preservation.
Indeed, they have a full time irrigation manager who has helped maintain a constant groundwater level and ensured that water quality remains unaffected. Using best practices in irrigation, and with accurate monitoring and recording techniques, their aim is to reduce consumption based on yearly objectives across the facility.
Broken Sound Golf Club, in Florida, has invested significantly to install a reclaimed water line diverted from the city of Boca Raton, which would otherwise dump this water into the Atlantic Ocean. Although the water is treated, the reefs off the coast are very sensitive to nutrients, and recycling the water in this way allows it to be naturally filtered even further before it enters the hydrological cycle. Previously, the club took all its irrigation water from lakes fed by rainfall, run-off and
Golfpark Nuolen in Switzerland has taken just 2000 cubic metres from Lake Zurich in the past three years, from an abstraction licence of 1800 cubic metre per day. The reason behind this is due to the club’s use of harvested water from drains, roofs, and drainage water that feeds the six lakes on the course. Snow melt and carefully planned drainage construction means that water consumption at Golfpark Nuolen is self supporting and very much sustainable.
Golfclub Zwolle in the Netherlands has an independent water storage system from the local district water board. Horizontal drainage feeds the surface water stores on the course, which are then filled up by a one-way valve from the bordering ditches and canals. The vegetation in and around the club’s ponds acts as a biological filter of nutrients and pollutants from the incoming water, preventing it reaching the golf course. This concern for water quality proves that Golfclub Zwolle has a great understanding not only of water resource issues, but also the
importance of its biodiversity to the larger ecosystem and ecological food chains.
GEO is an international, not-for- profit, stakeholder funded organisation dedicated to helping the golf community embrace sustainable golf and provide practical solutions to issues of environmental, social and economic improvement.
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