Pavelec Brothers recently constructed a new 2 acre irrigation pond and a new pump house building for a future course-wide irrigation system. An existing pond near-by was drained, dredged and deepened and had shelves constructed to support a variety of native wetland plants. After the dewatering and dredging, a dry stack stone wall was constructed halfway around the perimeter of the original pond.

A 10,000 square foot decorative pond was also constructed between the irrigation pond and the existing pond. The decorative pond has a unique shape with natural, random placement of rocks, boulders and indigenous, low-maintenance water plants. Three eye-catching waterfall features were created at either end of the decorative pond, one leading in and two emptying out into the existing pond. A stone arch bridge was built between them to allow golfers to navigate the hole.

What’s hard for the casual observer to see is that no water ever leaves the irrigation pond! (Except, of course, when heavy rainfall causes some natural overflow.) The waterfall that appears to be spilling from the irrigation pond is actually created by a re-circulating pump and 400 feet of piping from the existing pond to a drop structure carefully built into the slope of the irrigation pond. The drop structure fills with water pumped from the existing pond which then spills over to form the “optical illusion” of a waterfall coming from the irrigation pond.