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FROM THE ROUGH WATER CONSERVATION
After several years of
trimming at the edges and
avoiding the inevitable, the
leadership at North Ranch
Country Club, 30 miles north
of Los Angeles, came to
the realization that the area
would never again see water
in plentiful supply to maintain
175 acres of turf on its 27-hole
private golf facility.
The cost was too great. The
choice to continue to use the
current water allocation was not
feasible.
So, when the historic
California drought conditions
hit last summer and the
Metropolitan Water District
(MWD) of Southern California,
which serves Los Angeles and
the surrounding area, doubled
its incentive program for turf
removal to $2 per square foot,
North Ranch Golf Course
Superintendent Ryan Bentley
took off the gloves.
He showed the club's board
that it was worth moving on
a dramatic 35-plus-acre turf
removal program that would
save the club $500,000 annually
within five years, after counting
the initial costs and the rebate.
CALIFORNIA COUNTRY
CLUB TO REMOVE TURF
STATE'S LARGEST TURF REMOVAL PROJECT
