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DCPC's fourth hole rehabilitation is indicative of many of the fairways on the golf course.  I have posted these pictures to document what has been happening here and throughout the golf course.

 

The first few pictures are trying to establish how wet the fairway was (notice the turf in the fairway has gone to seed) :

 

After a hand mowing in preparation for drainage work:

 

 

 

Then Assistant, Kurt Calderwood, using a wire tracer to trace the location of a metal snake inside a drainline.

 

 

We started with one drainline in the stream and by snaking and tracing ended up with this knowledge:

 

We found that many old drains were compromised with irrigation installation in the mid 1990's, the white pipe is the the irrigation pipe and the black pipe is the  drainage:

 

Note the puddle here in what will be fairway:

 

 

The next day after a pipe repair:

 

There were 15 on these type of breaks on this 1/2 acre of fairway.  Course wide to date we have made over 200 repairs to the drainlines.

 

A mainline irrigation pipe destroyed an important curtain drain:

 

The curtain drain was repaired at the base of the hill where water was seeping out:

 

We found a destroyed junction box of 100 year old pipes:

 

Not having a proper junction, where pipes meet can lead to failure.

 

Fernando poses with his finished handiwork after making a proper junction box:

 

Other junction boxes look like this:

 

All this work helped us be able to maintain the original fairway  as designed.  But it still didn't perform the best it could due to its soil makeup and low elevation.  This is when we started the fairway topdressing program.