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Environmental Services for Golf Courses

·         Storm Water Management

·         Erosion Control and Sediment Management &  Digital Terrain Modeling

·         Dam and Impoundment Design and Permitting

·         Maintenance Facility Design

·         Site Development (roads, bridges and utilities).

 

    Background 

 In January 1995 at Pebble Beach and again in March 1996 at Pinehurst, North Carolina, key representatives of the golf industry, the environmental community, and EPA met to discuss methods of making golf courses as environmentally sensitive as possible. As a result, the Environmental Principles for Golf Courses in the United States have been drafted and endorsed as a set of voluntary guidelines to promote environmental stewardship in golf course siting and planning, design, construction and maintenance.

In essence, the guidelines relate to three issues:  

  • Preliminary environmental studies to ensure protection of environmentally sensitive lands,

  • Changes in design and practices to reduce water consumption and the presence of nitrates and other chemicals in storm water runoff from golf courses, and

  • Added vigilance in maintenance facility activities to prevent potential environmental contamination problems.

The first two challenges are largely the work of biologists and landscape architects. Based on extensive experience meeting the environmental needs of maintenance facilities in other industries, Wilson Environmental is uniquely qualified to help meet this third challenge.

Our engineers have gained directly applicable expertise on projects including: Design, construction management and retrofitting of maintenance facilities for oilfield service companies; and Control, treatment and recycling of stormwater and process wastewater.

Wilson offers an integrated approach to golf course maintenance facility design that can alleviate or even eliminate these problems. Our engineers have developed successful, cost-effective design strategies that solve the problems of materials storage, wastewater discharge and leaking containment structures. These solutions have been incorporated into proven maintenance facility designs that help you prevent potential contamination from materials storage and vehicle maintenance operations.

Storm Water Management

 

Storm water management involves the routing of runoff from the golf course through conveyance systems to detention or retention features or discharge points (stream or rivers).  Each step of this process is integrally related to the next step.  Wilson Environmental utilizes computer models to analyze the process as an integrated system.  This allows us to optimize the design of the conveyance systems and detention or retention features.  In addition, the models can be used to analyze statistical methods to assess the impact of the stormwater flows on the site.  In other words, we can tell how a storm event may impact a course.

Wilson Environmental works with the golf course architect during the design of the storm water system.  We incorporate the architect’s design to develop a system that is functional with regard to operation and maintenance of the facility, while meeting the architects needs in incorporating these features into the aesthetics of the course.

 

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