Water Supply Issues

Today is the 25th of June and we are currently looking at a shortage of water for the remainder of the year. Due to the dry weather over the past spring we have drawn our reservoir down by 8 feet. One week ago the water level was at the 10 feet level (see picture) and today we are 1.5 feet lower. 

The climate map below shows why our water is in such shortage.  According to this, the area surrounding the club is 4-5" below our normal rainfall for the past 90 days. 



Spring Work

After a mild winter a warm spring has given us the opportunity to work on cleaning up from our winter tree trimming project.  Stumps were ground down in early March and the result is mounds of grindings.  After the grindings are hauled to our compost area, we begin backfilling the holes with topsoil from our compost area.  The amount of material moved is large and takes a number of days.  Currently, we are in the process of finish grading and seeding these areas. 

During the winter the willows front left of 13 tee were removed and we were faced with stumps on a steep slope that could not be ground down by a conventional stump grinder.  So, we were forced to dig them out with an excavator.  As you can see a huge hole was dug and was immediately repaired to match the surrounding grade. 

Chikaming C.C. Grounds Crew

During the past weekends Men's Invitational, we took a short moment to take a crew photo. 

Front Row (r to l):  Paul Kniola (Equipment Manager), Nick Nate (1st Assistant), Ben Turner, Nathan Turner, Tim Munday, Ryan Piner, German Gonzalez, Forrest Galanda, John Maximoff (Max), Rob Lemon (Facilities Manager)
Back Row (r to l):  Derrick Walden, Ed Adams (Special), Nick Conklin (2nd Assistant), Carl Ardissono, Paul Ardissono, Kevin Kill, Austin Cross, Darrell Chitty (Big D), Scott Peters, Eric Rank (Director of Grounds)