Golf Course Irrigation: Environmental Design and Management Practices

Complete guidelines to developing and maintaining the most effective, environment-friendly irrigation systems for golf courses
Golf Course Irrigation offers valuable insight on the design, installation, management, and maintenance of irrigation systems-the most important management tool used on today's golf courses. Without manufacturers' bias, this useful resource provides hands-on guidance to the highest quality irrigation systems, including specifications and applications of the best pump stations, controllers, sprinkler heads, nozzles, valves, sensors, and other components that make the difference in top-quality irrigation systems.
Typically regarded as significant users of water, golf courses are under increasing scrutiny by governmental and environmental groups, making it essential that the up-to-date information found here-on such topics as water supply, plant irrigation requirements, application uniformity, and construction management-be at the fingertips of every golf course professional. While fostering the best playing conditions, these systems conserve water and energy with such technology as low-pressure heads and controls that use "if/then" logic to automatically adjust to changing conditions, which can improve playability while saving money.
Golf Course Irrigation is a practical tool to help golf course architects, builders, superintendents, irrigation consultants, designers, and installers to improve aesthetics and playing conditions in the face of diminishing natural resources. It is also an informative reference for golf course owners, developers, local officials, students, and fans of the game.

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Title of ebook: Golf Course Irrigation: Environmental Design and Management Practices
ISBN: 9780471464556
parent-ISBN: 9780471148302
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Internet download file size: 10104 kb
Published: 01-2003
Released online for download: 01-09-2003
Author of eBook: Barrett, James
Joint Author: Vinchesi, Brian
Joint Author: Roche, Paul

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Golf Course Irrigation

Environmental Design and Management Practices

Chapter One

Plant Irrigation Requirements

This chapter introduces the relationships between the turfgrass plant, the host soil, and the irrigation water, which are key to proper irrigation design and management. It provides information on water movement through different soils and water uptake by plant roots. It discusses the concept of evapotranspiration (consumptive use) and its role in the calculation of water requirements. The chapter also includes information on various turfgrass types, their water requirements, and their relative drought tolerances.

SOIL-WATER-PLANT RELATIONSHIPS

Irrigation concerns the relationship between how a soil holds and stores water and how a plant uses water. Although you do not need to know a great deal about soil physics or plant physiology for proper irrigation, you do need to have a general knowledge of soils and to be familiar with how a plant, in this case turfgrass, uses water and uptakes it from the soil. There are a number of terms and concepts you should be familiar with in order to understand the soil-plant- ... read full excerpt from Golf Course Irrigation: Environmental Design and Management Practices ebook

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