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Gardner City golf course irrigation restored after pump repairs, commission hears
Summary
Commissioners approved minutes and heard that irrigation has been fully restored after pump repairs; staff reported pump capacity increased to about 1,000 gallons per minute and outlined remaining hardware replacements and seeding plans. Architects will prepare proposals based on a delivered site plan.
The Gardner City Golf Commission approved the previous meeting’s minutes and was told that the course’s irrigation system is back at full capacity after recent pump repairs.
Bill said, “the water is officially back on it,” and reported that two pumps are running and the system is now pumping “1,000 gallons a minute,” up from about 140 gallons per minute earlier in the season. He said line pressure has risen from roughly 50–60 PSI to about 130 PSI, allowing nighttime watering of greens, tees and fairways to resume.
The commission’s chair noted that a site plan has been delivered to Gardner City and that the next step will be for architects to produce proposals based on that plan. Commissioners discussed communications about the project, and members thanked Bill for hand-watering the course while the irrigation was offline.
Bill described recent repairs to the pump house and equipment. He said one pump motor was completely rebuilt and another was replaced with a new motor; shafts were refurbished. He also reported that a cooling radiator for the irrigation computer had been damaged by sitting idle and that staff elected to replace the radiator internals for about $1,400 rather than buy a full new unit. Exact total repair costs were not specified in the transcript.
Commissioners discussed short-term turf work: staff will use divot mix and smaller-area seeding now to restore fairways that are largely intact and plan larger-scale overseeding closer to the fall growing season. No additional formal actions or vote outcomes on budgeting for these repairs were recorded in the transcript.
The commission did not specify a date for architects’ proposals in the recorded discussion; the transcript ends after equipment and parts details were described.
