Project: Tuscany Reserve Golf Course
Location: North Naples, Florida
Developer: WCI Communities, Inc.
Geomembrane Installer: Geo-Synthetics, Inc.
Materials: 40 mil HDPE Geomembrane, 12 oz Geotextile
Quantites: 1,676,000 sq. ft. of each layer, 12,000 l. ft. stainless steel batten and anchor bolts.
Tuscany Reserve is one of the most prestigious developments of WCI Communities, Inc.
The golf course within the development has been designed and built in keeping with the very high standards of the community. This includes engaging the services of Pete Dye and Greg Norman to design a beautiful and challenging championship golf course.
The location and nature of the project presented unique challenges to the construction of the 14 lined ponds and other unlined ponds that are found throughout the course.
The foremost of which was the high groundwater level that made it extremely difficult to maintain the pond excavations dry enough to allow the installation of the HDPE geomembrane and the underlying geotextile. This required unusual and innovative methods of construction/installation by both the earthworks and liner contractors. While the earthworks contractor did a good job of controlling the inflow of groundwater there was always water inflow to contend with during the installation of the geomembrane. This often required elevating the seam areas using polystyrene planks as there was running water under the liner. The other challenge was attaching the liner to the numerous bridges, retaining walls and other structures to prevent water loss once the ponds were filled.
All the lined ponds have no measurable loss of water which helps the water management of the course and enhances the beauty of the course as the water level is always at the grass level with no exposure of the cover material.