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Controlling flood water in Korea
At Whistling Rock Country Club, located
in the mountains to the east of Seoul,
Korea, the approving agencies for the
project required separate systems for
both retention and detention of water
serving three distinct drainage areas. A
total of fourteen lakes were mandated,
eight serving as retention ponds to
ensure the site remained environmentally
neutral and six serving as added
detention basins to control flooding
during the monsoon season through the
village located below the site.
The challenge for golf course architect
Ted Robinson, Jr., ASGCA, and his
design team was to incorporate the
lakes into the golf course plan in sizes
and locations dictated by the agencies
while fully integrating them into the site to
appear natural in the mountain setting.
A series of visual tricks and well-
designed dams and barriers meant
two separate systems would appear
as one and look entirely naturalized
within the site. Fairways are irrigated
using a modern state-of-the-art
irrigation system to minimize water
use, with drainage directed to the
retention lakes.
While the site’s detention system serves
to retain six million gallons of water
from the surrounding watershed, when
combined with the retention system, the
site regulates over 14 million gallons
during a storm event.
Read the full case study on
page 14 of
Golf & Water
Prioritizing water conservation
For the development of Charleston
Springs Golf Complex in Monmouth
County, New Jersey, golf course
architect Mark Mungeam, ASGCA,
scouted the available land for a site
with surface water, agricultural soils
and minimal forest cover. These features
made the land inherently conducive
to golf design, and therefore more
economical to develop.
The budget for water
—
and the
ecological requirements of the facility
—
saw the architect finding ways to collect,
retain and filter water for irrigation use.
The team designed course grading,
drainage and new pond configurations
to collect and filter a large percentage
of the course runoff. Intensive play areas
flow into a series of created wetlands
and water quality basins that treat the
water prior to it being reused for course
irrigation. Irrigation swales were designed
to handle runoff and allow percolation
to recharge the groundwater. Mungeam
selected drought-tolerant grass species
and an efficient irrigation system to reduce
water dependence.
Conservation of energy
—
one of the
highest-cost aspects of the application of
water
—
was achieved through the use of
a number of technological advances in
geothermal heating and cooling. Water
was conserved and protected through
the use of low-maintenance grasses and
a highly-efficient irrigation and fertigation
system that minimizes the use of higher
quality groundwater, reduces fertilization
needs and minimizes runoff and leaching
of potential pollutants.
Read the full case study on
page 20 of
Golf & Water
Photo: © Joann Dost