When the irrigation system was rewired, maybe 16 years ago, for some reason they decided to trench in the wires right into the collars and greens. This is easier soil to trench into but when we implement the deep tine aeration once a year it seems we hit the wires in a few locations which causes us to lose control of those irrigation heads. This poses a big problem because we then have to hand water those areas where we could have automatically turned the water on with the computer. When we can we use a wire tracer to try and find where the breaks are and sometimes there are many breaks. So if you see some areas where the green has been dug up and re-sodded, it is us trying to reconnect the broken wires.
Mike O'Neill, GCS
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