| From the Back CoverComplete guidelines to formulating and sustaining the most effective, environment-friendly irrigation systems for golf courses
Golf Course Irrigation offers worthful clear or deep perception on the design, installation, management, and maintenance of irrigation systems-the most indispensable management tool applied on today’s golf courses. Without manufacturers’ bias, this utile resource provides hands-on guidance to the most eminent quality irrigation systems, including specifications and apps of the best pump stations, controllers, sprinkler heads, nozzles, valves, sensors, and other parts that make the divergence in top-quality irrigation systems.
Typically regarded as substantial users of water, golf courses are underneath increasing scrutiny by governmental and environmental groups, making it necessary that the up-to-date selective information found here-on such topics as water supply, plant irrigation requirements, application uniformity, and construction management-be at the fingertips of each golf course professional. While fostering the best playing conditions, these systems conserve water and energy with such engineering science as low-pressure heads and controls that use “if/then” logic to mechanically adjust to altering conditions, which may 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 likewise an informative reference for golf course owners, developers, local officials, students, and fans of the game.
About the AuthorJAMES BARRETT, ASIC, CID, CLIA, is the founder of James Barrett Associates, Inc., in Roseland, New Jersey. He has designed more than 260 golf course irrigation systems.
BRIAN VINCHESI, ASIC, CID, CIC, CLIA, CGIA, CLIM, is President of Irrigation Consulting, Inc., in Pepperell, Massachusetts.
ROBERT DOBSON, CID, CIC, is President of Middletown Sprinkler Company in Port Monmouth, New Jersey.
PAUL ROCHE, CID, CIC, CLIA, is Irrigation Division Manager at S.V. Moffett Co., Inc., in Rochester, New York.
DAVID ZOLDOSKE, EdD, CID, is Director of the Center for Irrigation Technology at the California State University in Fresno.
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