Lake bank work

Some of you might of noticed on hole 5 along the lake bank some fill material added in a couple spots. These areas were filled with cart path edging scraps that I saved because the lake bank was eroding severely. During the reconstruction of the course the excavators reached out into the lakes as far as they could and dug out material to shape the course with. This process left a trench around the perimeter of the lakes, and in some spots of that under water trench the walls are severe. Over time soil is naturally going to start sliding down hill causing the lake banks to cave in. This is a pretty common issue with newer golf courses since you really can't tell what is happening underwater when digging. The cure to this problem is to either rebuild the lake banks or add material to fill in the trench so it stops sliding. During the last cart path edging, instead if paying to dispose of the spoils I saved them knowing that we needed to do some lake bank work come spring. This particular area on 5 was severely eroded so I filled it now. One big benefit of using the cart path spoils is that it already has some grass sprigs and sod in it to speed up the stabilization process.

In the pictures below you can see the area on 5, as well as an area along the cart path in front of 3 blue tee that needs some work. The lake banks will be primarily an early spring time project, but certain areas in dire need of some restoration will be done sooner.