Summer maintenance: Keeping algae at bay

Summer maintenance: Keeping algae at bay

By the time an irrigation pond looks like pea soup, the damage is already underway: clogged intake screens, fouled nozzles, oxygen crashes that kill the pond’s ability to clean itself, and odour complaints from the clubhouse patio.  The fix is rarely a chemical one. In more than five decades of installing and repairing pond equipment for golf courses and municipalities across Ontario, the pattern we see is consistent – the ponds that stay clean …