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Planners encourage environmental certification for city-leased and private recreational fields and golf courses
Summary
The planning session recommended encouraging city-leased recreational fields and private golf courses to pursue environmental certifications (Audubon, GEO, Sports Field Management Association), and discussed using lease language at renewal to require practices that reduce nutrient and sediment loading.
Planning participants discussed goals and objectives intended to reduce sediment and nutrient runoff from golf courses and recreational fields into Whitefish Lake and other water bodies. The group agreed to encourage environmental certification and to consider lease-language changes at renewal for city-owned properties leased to third parties.
Why it matters: Participants said fertilizer use and turf-management practices can contribute nutrients and contaminants that reduce water…
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