City to spend $210K to help flood-proof golf course
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The City of Brandon is set to spend $210,000 to improve drainage at the Wheat City Golf Course.
City council voted at its Sept. 8 meeting to make the improvements on most of the front-nine area that was ravaged by flooding earlier this year.
“It’s a relief because the golf course has a historical value to the city of Brandon,” the course’s director of operations, Scott Ramsay, said Tuesday.
City of Brandon recreation director Heather Reimer speaks at the Sept. 8 council meeting. (Alex Lambert/The Brandon Sun)
“The goal is for the golf course not to be closed long term in the lower part of the golf course.”
Heavy rainfall could still temporarily close the course in the future, but Ramsay said the hope is that what used to be a weeks-long cleanup would now take days or hours.
“I think it’s going to put us in the same position as other golf courses in the area, where heavy weather, rainfall events are going to impact us, but not catastrophically,” Ramsay said.
The work could start as early as next week, he said, and most of the digging and shaping will be completed this fall. Minor repairs could continue into next year, he added.
Ramsay said he doesn’t expect any holes to be out of commission during the drainage work, but some could be altered.
The $210,000 cost for repairs will be split between holes 1, 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8. The money will be drawn from the city’s parks reserve.
City recreation manager Heather Reimer said the upgrades will improve the course’s ability to temporarily store water and improve the movement of water.
Reimer said while the city does have disaster financial assistance requests in to recover money spent on flooding prevention for the course, this work is considered “improvement” and isn’t eligible for DFA.
Also at last week’s council meeting, members voted to rezone part of a property at 110052 Patricia Ave. from agricultural to commercial and open space to allow for a public road and commercial lots.
The land, just west of 18th Street, is part of the future South Village Neighbourhood, which could create about 544 homes and new retail space.
City council approved a neighbourhood plan last year. A city planner in January said the commercial land in the proposed neighbourhood would have a similar layout to Shoppers Mall or Corral Centre.
» alambert@brandonsun.com