30 Years For 30 Years Of Water: Pasatiempo
/Jason Scott Deegan at GolfAdvisor.com with splendid news from Santa Cruz: after 30 years of trying to secure a long term water source, Alister MacKenzie's Pasatiempo Golf Club has a 30-year agreement to use recycled city water that was otherwise headed to the sea.
Hoyt says the financial implications of the deal will be difficult on the club in the short term. He says Pasatiempo will pay for the entire cost of the water up front -- $1.6 million spread over the next five years -- leaving no payments the final 25 years of the agreement. The club has also taken out a loan to pay for an $8-million project to build a 500,000-gallon storage tank and its own pumping and filtration station. Ground will be broken May 17 with scheduled completion in May 2017.
