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| Content Type: | Q & A |
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| Corporate Author(s): | USGA Green Section |
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| Title: | [Draining a green to take care of seepage from an adjacent hillside] |
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| Source: | The Bulletin of the United States Golf Association Green Section. Vol. 5, No. 4, April 1925, p. 92. |
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| Publishing Information: | Washington, DC: USGA Green Section |
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| # of Pages: | 1 |
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| Question: | "In your February, 1924, Bulletin, you recommended that a grassy hollow be constructed in order to take care of hill seepage, as being a better plan than to put tile down, covered with rubble from the tile up to the point near the surface of the ground. A year ago we treated a green by the latter method. We made a ditch about 4 feet deep, put in 6-inch common drain tile, and covered the tile with cinders up to within 8 inches of the surface, and then sodded it over. This seemed to give us good results, and we intend to treat two more greens the same way this spring. These two greens are backed too closely by trees to permit the putting in of a grassy hollow, and if we do anything it will have to be with tile. What specific objection do you have to this method?" |
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| Source of Question: | Indiana |
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| Answer/Response: | "In order to take care of the seepage from the hillside where it is impracticable to put in either a grassy hollow or a bunker, the matter can be attended to by using tile and rubble. Dig a trench deep enough to get well below the level of the green so that the seepage water that comes out below your trench will not be too near the surface of the green. The lowest part of your green ought to be 1 1/2 to 2 feet above the bottom of the trench. To secure satisfactory drainage with tiles there should be a series of tile, one laid over the other from the bottom up, particularly well toward the top, so as to take care of the water at all the levels. These layers of tiles can be a foot apart; that is, each line should be a foot above the other, and the intervals filled with rubble. If you put in only one layer at the bottom of the trench, enough water will escape over that layer to give you a soggy condition of the green; a least this frequently happens; but with a battery of lines of tiles one above the other it is possible to cut off the seepage water completely. It is possible that you could do the whole job, and we think it entirely practicable, with coarse rubble. Cinders we fear are too fine, as after a while they clog up with silt and then satisfactory drainage ceases." |
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| Keywords: | TIC Keywords: Drainage; Drainage installation; Seepage; Drainage improvement; Tile drainage; Golf greens; Trenching
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| Language: | English |
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| References: | 0 |
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| ASA/CSSA/SSSA Citation (Crop Science-Like - may be incomplete):
USGA Green Section. 1925. [Draining a green to take care of seepage from an adjacent hillside]. Bull. U.S. Golf Assoc. Green Sec. 5(4):p. 92. |
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