9
January 2017
KICA and KIGR Use Creative
Timing to Address Drainage
and Restoration Projects
Story Highlights
Work underway on KICA drainage
system under Cougar Point
Repair work coincides with Cougar
Point renovation.
KICA’s drainage system beneath the
Cougar Point Golf Course is some
of the oldest infrastructure on the
island, having been installed by the
Kuwaitis in the 1970s. It’s about to
get an upgrade.
The infrastructure is an important part of the large Beachwalker
drainage basin (West Beach, portions of East Beach and
Settlement), which discharges to the Kiawah River at an outlet
on Beachwalker Drive. This drainage basin encompasses 38
ponds. KICA will use the spin-casting technique to repair large
pipes within the system. Spin-casting is the latest in culvert
rehabilitation technology for medium- to large-diameter
storm water infrastructure, using a structural mortar applied
centrifugally to attain a uniform thickness around the interior
of compromised pipes.
The spin-casting method achieves two important factors: it
avoids costly and time-consuming excavation, and provides a
long-term service life. Before employing this method, KICA
engineers visited communities where it has been in use, and
were impressed with what they saw.
KICA will also spot-excavate ponds along the course to open
drainage flow, as well as lower the overall pond levels in the
drainage basin to facilitate the project.
Digest Contributors
Frances Boyd - Member Volunteer
Virginia Chapel - Member Volunteer
Bill Hindman - Member Volunteer
Shauneen Hutchinson - Member Volunteer
Sue Schaffer - Feature reporter
Deb Stewart - Member Volunteer
The timing of this work was coordinated with the Kiawah
Island Golf Resort, which closed the Cougar Point Golf Course
for renovations just after Thanksgiving. With Gary Player
consulting, course renovations include:
• Re-grassing the greens, tees, and fairways with Paspalum
(the same highly acclaimed salt-tolerant grass that the
resort has on its other four golf courses);
• Laser leveling all tee boxes including the practice range;
• Rebuilding all bunkers;
• Updating the irrigation throughout the golf course; and
• Rebuilding existing bulkheads.
The course is slated to reopen in October 2017.
KICA’s $1.5 million drainage work began in early December
when final DHEC and Army Corp of Engineers permits were
secured, and is scheduled to be completed in May. When
contractors are working in the area, members will see aqua
dams put in place in the ponds, which will then be dewatered
to complete the work. KICA’s work will occur during regular
construction hours, and there will be some noise from pumps
and vacuum trucks removing sediment from the pipes. (KIGR
has a permit for Sunday work.) We appreciate your patience as
this important work is underway.
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Doug Reynolds - Communications/Editor
Tammy McAdory - Executive Director
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