Golf Course Impact

Overview

What problem does this solve for our lake?

• Golf courses are intensively managed: fertiliser to keep turf green, fungicides and pesticides to protect it, irrigation and stormwater carrying whatever is on the ground toward the nearest low point. When a course sits above or beside a shoreline, it is a reasonable question — and one that generates a great deal of heat and very little evidence.
• The scoping call works out what would actually demonstrate an effect. Usually that means testing & monitoring above and below the suspected input rather than mid-lake, choosing between the Herbicides Test and the Pesticide Detection Test, and timing collection to runoff events rather than calm mornings. Done properly, this produces a defensible answer in either direction — and a clean result is worth as much as a positive one, often more, because it ends a dispute that has been running for years.
• Two lakes with the same question rarely need the same tests. Depth, size, history, stratification, watershed, what has already been measured, and the decision at hand all change the answer, sometimes by thousands of dollars. So we price the conversation first, then quote the work.

What's included?

• A 30-minute scheduled call with a Lake Pulse specialist
• Review of whatever you already have — past results, consultant reports, agency data, local history
• A recommended scope built for your lake rather than a generic checklist
• A written quote following the call
• If you proceed: everything ordered, tracked, and delivered through Lake Pulse, with results loaded to your portal and interpreted rather than dumped on you

What's not included

• The testing or services themselves. This listing is the scoping call; the work is quoted after it.
• A fixed list of included tests. What goes in the scope depends on your lake — that is the point of the call.
• Obligation to proceed. Plenty of these calls end with a smaller recommendation than the caller expected, or none at all.
• Treatment, remediation, or applicator services
• Regulatory or compliance determinations

Requirements

• Whatever you already have, sent ahead — old results, a consultant's proposal, agency records, even photographs
• A sense of the decision behind the question. "Our board votes in March" changes the recommendation more than any technical detail.
• Whoever will act on the answer, on the call
• A Plus, Lake Admin, or PRO subscription to have results loaded into your Lake Pulse account
• Contact the Lake Pulse Boathouse if you have questions.