#1 Drain Basin

Chase's handiwork

Drainage trench

24" drain inlet

While fixing the bridges here, we needed to identify the problem of where was all the water coming from to create our erosion problem. On the west side of #1 bridge we recognized that all the water from the fairway and rough drained straight down the cart path to the bridge. Well this was a major problem because of the large amount of runoff that comes after wet weather. The idea is to install a large basin to collect all that water and send it down a 12" drain. So first Matt Chase shaped the basin in with a Bobcat and then I came in with the mini-x to dig the trench. Once we put the pipe in we back filled the trench and redid the cart path. We still have a couple of loose ends to tie-up because we were racing the weather so any rain runoff would get to the newly fixed bridge abutment.