How Green's Your Golf Course?
From June 2007
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“It’s all green,” he continues. “Courses cool the planet. They talk about global warming? Stop building shopping malls. Build more golf courses.”
An expert in runoff
Mike Blankinship is president of Blankinship & Associates, an agricultural and environmental consulting engineering firm that specializes in water resource management, protection and enhancement of natural resources. He discovered that there were no formal studies on water and golf. He supervised what he feels is the most in-depth analysis of this issue.
Six years ago, Contra Costa County hired Blankinship's Davis-based firm to study the county's 30 golf courses and assess the impact fertilizers, pesticides and fungicides had on water runoff areas.
One part of his report was to include a bibliography of other water studies anywhere in the world, but Blankinship found little objective data. There were plenty of university studies, paid for by commercial companies, that studied new hybrid grass strains, new fertilizers and such, but nothing that collected raw data and assessed the impact of golf courses on surface water.
"We had to find studies similar to anything we had done, and there were none," Blankinship says.
Continued...The Magazine
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