Finally Some Progress on #5

After fighting water in the creek for the past six days we finally made some good progress on the wall on #5. We are installing concrete stones at the foot of the slope, which is allowing us to keep all the silt and sludge away from our work site giving us a solid footing to build the new dirt green bank on. There will still be some water each day that we will have to pump out, but hopefully it won't be to the extent that it has been. We have found several springs in the creek in the area that we are trying to work which has caused some difficulty in getting it drained down. I hope I will have even more progress to show you after today as our hope is to have a full day of building the wall and not fighting water. I have attached a couple of pictures below showing the work being done. I can't express enough how much of a joy it has been to work with Jack Stockdale and his crew on this project. His crew has been relentless and dedicated to trying to find solutions to get the job done even when at times things were looking rather daunting. Also this week we are planning to roll the greens and smooth out the footprints hopefully later today and then possibly try and mow the greens on Wednesday as out temperatures are going to be in the upper 60's to 70 degrees. We are also considering possibly pressuring up the irrigation system today and tomorrow as things have gotten extremely dry. Looking at the weather it appears temperatures are going to stay relatively warm despite a small chance of some snow over the weekend. As long as we don't have a long stretch of extremely cold weather things should be ok if they are pressured. Have a good day and I am hopeful I can give you another update later today or tomorrow.