Thanks Daniel for your observations. I agree entirely with your assessments and in an 'ideal world' this would be a 'design standard'. In less than ideal existing designs, be it stadia or golf, then poor quality water, poor maintenance and leachate discharge into groundwater are just facts and we seek to understand simple technologies that can be installed to achieve better quality turf and reduce impacts to groundwater. In developing countries for example where professional sportsturf maintenance is just beginning to be understood and agrochemical products of lower quality there is a need for education from soup to nuts but also using technology whilst this is ongoing. Thanks again !
Published by Jonathan Pendry, Director of Agronomy at Bernhard and Company Ltd
Thanks Daniel for your observations. I agree entirely with your assessments and in an 'ideal world' this would be a 'design standard'. In less than ideal existing designs, be it stadia or golf, then poor quality water, poor maintenance and leachate discharge into groundwater are just facts and we seek to understand simple technologies that can be installed to achieve better quality turf and reduce impacts to groundwater. In developing countries for example where professional sportsturf maintenance is just beginning to be understood and agrochemical products of lower quality there is a need for education from soup to nuts but also using technology whilst this is ongoing. Thanks again !