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Parks board backs BMU raw-water connection for Edgebrook Golf Course; council approves small capital-fee increase
Summary
Parks staff and advisory board recommended connecting Edgebrook Golf Course to BMU’s raw-water line for irrigation. Council later approved a modest increase to the golf course capital-improvement fee expected to add about $21,000 annually to the course’s capital fund.
Brookings — City parks staff and the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board recommended this week that the city connect Edgebrook Golf Course to Brookings Municipal Utilities’ (BMU) raw-water line to provide a redundant, long-term irrigation source, and the City Council approved a modest increase to the golf course capital-improvement fee.
Christian Zimmerman, parks, recreation and forestry director, reviewed six water-source options the city evaluated for the public course: on-site wells, improved pond collection, a connection to treated water, a connection to BMU raw (pre-treatment) water, a connection to a city-owned softball-complex well, and new wells south of the property. For reliability and redundancy, Zimmerman said the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board recommends connecting to BMU’s raw-water line.
"The pond will act as a holding pond. So for irrigation because we need a lot of water quick when we irrigate for…
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