Irrigation Leak - #1 / #2 Road

Our July 4th weekend and last week was occupied with a large irrigation break of our mainline under the road as you go from #1 green to # 2 tee.  When I was starting my course tour on Friday morning at 5:30AM I crossed the road and saw water coming up through the road in 7 different places. 

Water coming up through the asphalt and curb edge

Water flwoing down the street

Sink holes starting appear as the asphalt warms up, because of the water movement under the road in the sub grade

For the next 5 days, we dug up the pipe on both sides of road and capped it off so we could still irrigate the remainder of the golf course except hole #1, we had all the utilities located in the road right-a-way, dug up the road and replaced the pipe, and while all of this was happening we were dragging hoses across the road from #2 tee area to handwater the green complex of #1, and dragging hoses from #10 tee across the road to handwater #1 tee complex. 

Road edges dug up and locates taking place

More utility locates

Starting to dig up the road

Cavity under the road, right above the pipe

Road dug up

Old pipe - spiral crack along the side of the pipe for about 10 ft

New pipe installed, with a sleeve that the old pipe was not installed in

 We monitered the rough and fairways to push them as long as we could go with out water, and then I was going to bring out a tank to cool down the hot spots and ask adjacent homewoners if I could tap into the spicket on the side of their house, but we did get everything repaired and fixed just in time for the fairway and rough areas.  I felt comfortable to push the turf as far as I could, and was going go to wait on the last step just before we were going to start loosing turf.  Even though it was pushing 100 degrees everyday for those 5 days, we were able to make it until we got the water line repaired.

Water back on, you see the stress after 5 days, but no turf loss even though it does not look great

Everything is repaired with the pipe now and irrigation is functioning properly again.  We do still have some work and time to bring the turf back on #1 fairway and rough.  We also have to work with the City of Lewiston and our insurance company to repair the damage that occurred with to the road.