Courses escape major damage
For the second time this year, POA facilities escaped major damage from flooding.
Golf Maintenance Superintendent Keith Ihms said he was pleasantly surprised when the water went down after heavy rain on Tuesday,
March 27.
There was some minor clean up of limbs and other debris, but it wasn’t difficult to clean up and the creek bed did not experience major erosion.
“We had all the courses back open by Friday,” Ihms said. Nine holes of Berksdale were closed after the 2017 flood and will remain closed until the POA decides how to repair a stretch of creek bed that is adjacent to the cart path.
The back portion of Blowing Springs park was closed on Tuesday, Recreation Director Joan Glubczynski said, because the road was covered with water and was unsafe. But she also found little damage when the water went down. The RV park did not have
“We had all the courses back open by Friday." Keith Ihms Golf Maintenance Superintendent
to close, she said.
“We’ve been lucky,” she said.
Last year when the golf courses flooded, the golf course ponds that was being used as fish nurseries were filled with creek water and the fish breeding program suffered. This year, the ponds are fine, Lakes & Fisheries Superintendent Rick Echols said.
Two ponds are being used for crappie and this week Echols plans to move Saugeye fingerlings to two more ponds that were drained and prepared to become nurseries.