Patrick,
Just like you admitted in the post below, your experience in this stuff is things you may see while playing golf (site visit?).
1. What "post below"
2. My experience extends far, far beyond things i see when playing golf
That's the extent of your practical experience.
No it's not.
You have no idea as to my education and experience that has nothing to do with what I observe while playing golf.
How arrogant and ignorant of youExcept perhaps if you want to say your educated in it because you're very good at quickly looking up Wikipedia and Google when you're trying to "win" arguments on here.
It's amazing how you know so much about people, like when Jon typed "root zone" and you insisted that he meant "canopy"
Did you train "The Amazing Kreskin" or did he train you ?
My education in this and other matters couldn't be because I entered college as a chemical engineer could it ?You're a spoiled country club boy that always has to be right.
Now that is funny.
So tell me, exactly how was I "spoiled"And please tell me the difference between a pond and deep ground water?
ALL of the differences or just depth and temperature ?Can a pond not be the result of a deep groundwater source?
Is that how most retention ponds are sourced ?
How would that affect the need for dredging ?What if a golf course feeds off a pond that used to be an old mining pit and is 100 feet deep?
I see lots of them, especially in Florida, Long Island, NJ, Texas and California .
Would you say, in your expert opinion, that they are the norm, or rare ?If you are correct then the golf course will only place it's intake at 20 feet? Yeah sure ok. If your correct statement of only 20 feet is the worldwide standard, then what is the standard area of the pond as to equate how many gallons are available before the intake is dry?
Let's take one question at a time.
What's your stated opinion on the average depth of retention/irrigation ponds ?
What's your stated opinion on the average depth of the outfall/intake pipe ?
As to the second question, the needs of the course determine the desired capacity of the retention pond and depth is but one component of the volume neededDeeper is always better and you are dead wrong that nobody will have an intake deeper than 20 feet. Dead wrong.
Would you cite for me where i specifically stated that "nobody" would locate an outfall/intake pipe deeper than 20 feet ?
I'll help you in your quest. Look at reply # 15. Read it carefully.
Then admit that you lied and twisted the facts, something you're all to quick to accuse me of doing.
So, either your reading comprehension skills are abominable, or, you twist the facts and lie, or both.
When I did Construction of the 4 Barefoot Landing courses during college the one pond excavated for shaping fill was 80-100 feet deep and to have a pond that deep and only put the intake at 20'?!?!?! Why? Especially in South Carolina when you're using millions of gallons of water a night year round. Putting the pipe at 20' is robbing you and wasting available irrigation water with everything that's left below it.
Go back and read reply #15 you moronAnd you might want to go play another round of golf, or as you call it a "site visit" like you're on official business, and while you're putting on 18 ask one of the greenskeepers if when turf reaches 86 degrees if its dead. Reaching 86 doesn't kill it.
Once again, you moron, you can neither read or tell the truth.
I quoted the very article you posted.
At 86F it stated that the plant was NEAR death, not dead.
Once again, you've twisted the facts and LIED.
Do you see a pattern ?
A consistent pattern ?
You can't read very well, and you twist the facts and lie.
Great combination.
Are you that desperate to try to finally win an argument with me that you have to resort to those tactics ?
No need to respond, we already know the answer Turf reaches 86 all the time and survives. It goes into dormancy to protect itself and give the greenskeepers some time to get it cooled off.
You really are stupid.
We know that.
The USGA article that you were kind enough to present stated same.
Perhaps, due to your inability to read, you missed the part about temperatures exceeding 86F and what would happen to the plant at those temperatures.
You remind of the kid who failed his final, and when he asked the professor, "why", the professor told him, because you didn't read and follow the instructions.
Huntington Learning Centers might be a worthwhile pursuit for you this summerDormancy, not death. You may know that if you have ever once in your life drug hose on a golf course instead of acting like this kid with your father at the halfway house...
Ahhh, the "spoiled kid" reference again.
Well I didn't drag hoses around nice country clubs in the summer when I was in college.
Instead, I collected premiums in Newark and the Oranges.
I had guys stick guns and knives in my face while you were dragging those hoses, taking special care not to disturb the Lady golfers.
Yeah, you really had it rough.
I bet those misquito's were really dangerous, or was it the golf balls from those ladies that presented your biggest threat ?
Get a life and a clue you schmuck [/quote]