High Quality Fairways and Roughs vs. Low Quality Irrigation Water

Golf courses around the country are increasingly facing turf management problems brought about through the use of low quality irrigation water. Whether it is poor quality well water, reclaimed water or even domestic water, the high salts, boron and other elements that characterize these waters are a threat to turfgrass health that require new management practices to overcome. In July of 2000, the PACE Turfgrass Research Institute initiated a 3 year study designed to address these issues.

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