The previous construction company left a mass of inferior material at the greensite and in the fairway on the 6th hole, and we didn’t want to go through the hassle and cost of trucking it away. What to do? What did farmers and others do to protect their properties from flooding? They created a dyke wall. Ours won’t be a typical dyke wall, but one that looks as if the river blew through it long, long ago. It will provide an abrupt elevation change within the hole, run from the greensite along the river, splitting the large fairway and work its way towards the tee. This eroded wall will also allow us to connect to the earth buffer (disguised as a hill) on the previous holes. Problems do equal opportunity. That’s the plan, at least for now.
The previous construction company placed inferior material directly over the unprepared greensite (topsoil should have been removed before the fill was placed). It is planned to be moved 40 meters and used as fill for the "Dyke Wall" flanking the left side of the green.
The bottom conceptual illustration reveals the general "Dyke Wall" Concept.
What is funny is at a previous project in a flood control basin, I had the Dyke walls hauled away, and used in a buffer wall. There the walls cut through the holes perpendicularly and the walls were contaminated with all manner of debris, from iron to concrete slabs to tires. As we ripped the dyke walls down, we separated the garbage and non-mineral debris from the soils and drove it to the local landfill. Here we are taking lemons and making lemonade.
How the wall could look. As if farmers from long ago tossed in all manner of soil, rock and debris. The sketch above loosely resembles the "Dyke Walls" at the previous river project where we removed them. A footpath would be woven through the wall.
Tony Ristola
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