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| Material Type: | Chapter |
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| Author(s): | Amick, William W. |
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| Title: | Golf courses on derelict land |
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| Section: | Construction and grow-in |
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| Volume Editors: | Graves, Robert Muir and Cornish, Geoffrey S. |
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| Monographic Source: | Golf Course Design, 1998, p. 239-245. |
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| Publishing Information: | New York: John Wiley & Sons |
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| # of Pages: | 7 |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Landfill golf courses; Disturbed soils; Golf industry trends; Gases; Golf course design; Safety; Design factors; Landfills
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| Abstract/Contents: | Discusses the increasing use of closed landfills as the basis for golf courses. Discusses the features of landfills that affect golf course design, including the need for special permits and/or monitoring, the tendency for the soil to settle, gases emitted by landfills, and the practice of capping landfills. Offers guidelines for designing a landfill in such a way as to make it suitable for a future golf course. |
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| ISBN: | 0-471-13784-7 |
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| See Also: | For more information about the book this record is from R=56405 |
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| See Also: | Other items relating to: LANDFILL |
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| Note: | Pictures, b/w
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Annotation from
Golf Course Design,
by Geoffrey S. Cornish and Michael J. Hurdzan: | "An Essay found in Golf Course Design. by Robert Muir Graves and Geoffrey S. Cornish." p. 54 |
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| Cornish & Hurdzan Ratings: | D3; F4 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
Amick, W. W. 1998. Golf courses on derelict land. In Graves, Robert Muir and Cornish, Geoffrey S. (eds.) Golf Course Design. New York: John Wiley & Sons. |
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