Sports complex finds water management solutions with dripline
Sports field designer Doug Rockne likes to tell the story of the soccer mom who praised the grounds crew at the Arapahoe Park and Recreation District, just south of Denver, because the turf looked so good last summer, even though the fields were never irrigated.Could they give her husband some tips?“‘Thanks,’ said the crew, ‘but we’ve got a professional secret. The turf is frequently irrigated, even when games are going on, but no one ever notices.“’It’s all underground . . . through driplines. We can irrigate any time of the day or night.’“And that’s one of the key reasons we’ve installed dripline on Arapahoe’s sports fields over the last 10 years,” said Rockne, ASLA, president of Rockne Corty Design of Centennial, CO.