Following a meeting yesterday with the seed sub-contractor and the contractor seeding activities are set to resume on the completed portions of the project (those south of the railroad tracks). This includes the Sunrise Point Golf Course where work will begin today, Wednesday, August 14, 2013. The contractor will be onsite at the golf course today removing silt fence to allow for the final fine grading to take place prior to the reseeding of the area.
The seeding contractor will be mobilizing and coming to Storm Lake today with his equipment and then starting work on Thursday. The first order of business will be the reseeding of the two large berms on the north and south of Hole #9. Once the berms are reseeded they will be mulched with straw and stakes and rope will be placed as a barrier to keep golf carts and foot traffic off the berms until grass has been established.
We are asking golfers for their help in getting the best turf we can by staying off of the berms until we have removed the ropes from the area. During the next week to 15 days we ask golfers to also be alert for small construction equipment and crews planting in the area.
Once the seeding crews have planted and mulched the berms they will start with planting of the plugs around the lower portions of the ponds. The contractor is draining the ponds currently to provide for these plantings to be done.
You may remember that the timing of the completion of the golf course work was delayed due to a very wet spring and while the contractor made every effort possible to finish the work so that seeding could be done during the allowable seed times it just didn't work out. Grass especially blue grass, the desired variety on the course, just will not grow in June and July in Iowa. The next opening for planting season is mid August and we are fortunate to be able to get the contractor in so early in the season.
The seeding contractor will also be seeding the area around the ponds by the condos and the grass waterway between the golf course and the far southern ponds. They will then move north and reseed the areas that were constructed north of East Lakeshore Drive/HWY 7.
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