Project Number: 3604-13000-009-19
Project Type: Specific Cooperative Agreement

Start Date: Jul 23, 2008
End Date: Sep 30, 2010

Objective:
Assess and characterize the environmental aspects of golf course turf, including the development and evaluation of management strategies or technologies to mitigate the potential offsite transport of sediment, nutrients, and pesticides. a) Quantify the fate and transport of nutrients, pesticides, and sediment from a managed turf watershed. b) Determine the processes and management controlling the fate and transport of sediment, nutrients and pesticides on golf course turf. c) Test an end-of-tile cartridge filter systems and surface amendments designed to minimize nutrient, pesticide, and sediment export.

Approach:
Laboratory and field approaches will be used to assess and characterize the environmental aspects of golf course turf, including the development and evaluation of management strategies and/or technologies. Before ¿ after watershed scale studies will be used to quantify the fate and transport as well as aid in the determination of the processes and management controlling the fate and transport of nutrients, pesticides, and sediment from turf environments. The reasearch site is located at Northland Country Club in Duluth, MN. Four different sites (two surface and two subsurface) are instrumented with automated sampling equipment. Treatments include an end-of-tile cartridge and surface amendments for enriching buffers. Water samples are collected on a flow proportional basis and analyzed for nutrients using colorimetric flow injection analysis and for pesticides using ELISA (Enzyme Linked ImmunoSorbent Assay).