As many Metro-Vancouver area golf and sportsturf managers know, amendments to the city’s water management plan, now called the ‘Drinking Water Protection Plan’, allow golf courses and sportsfields to follow an approved water management plan versus following arbitrary restrictions imposed in stages 2 and 3.
On January 10, golf industry personnel from throughout the Greater Vancouver area gathered at Riverway Golf Course in Burnaby for a BC Allied Golf Association town hall meeting designed to review the advocacy history between implementation of phase 3 water restrictions during the summer of 2015 and today, present a summary of the irrigation survey commissioned by AGA-BC aimed at fulfilling the regulator’s request for data, and to solicit input and direction from the golf industry at large for implementation of water use management plans as an alternative to arbitrary restrictions based on the day, time or irrigated area.
On August 10th, Metro-Vancouver circulated an update letting stakeholders know that on June 23, the Board approved revisions to the Water Shortage Response Plan (WSRP) and that the policy has a new name – the Drinking Water Conservation Plan (DWCP).
December 18, 2017
Dear Golf Course Superintendent:
Re: Update on inspection activities and a reminder of the changes to the IPM Regulation
Peter Sorokovsky, Head Superintendent for Golf Burnaby, the department that maintains and runs the four golf facilities for the city makes it clear...
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