Are you properly maintaining your turf fields? Whether your school facility has a soccer field, baseball diamond, track field or even a synthetic turf field, all turf needs proper maintenance and drainage in order to keep it playable all year-round. Depending on the conditions of your turf and the type of materials you have to work with, a proper maintenance program includes many or all of the following requirements: • Proper drainage • Irrigation • Drought-resistant seed • Scheduled aeration and top-dressing • Soil recovery program • *Synthetic Turf Sweeping • *Synthetic Turf Cleaning At GPS Turf Drains Inc., we offer a sports turf maintenance service specializing in extending the playability of fields by stabilizing the surface of the turf, while maintaining a high-water infiltration to keep your grass looking healthy. The company was formed as a result of technology becoming avail-
able that allowed extensive drainage systems to be installed without the need for fields to be shut-down for extensive periods of time, and costs being as low as 25 per cent of traditional drainage renovations. Owned by Stephen Inglis, who brought 30 years of experience in land drainage to the business, he started the company’s home base in the little town of Ladysmith on Vancouver Island. Over the past few years, Inglis has expanded the company to provide a turf maintenance service that can be scheduled and customized to suit our clients’ wishes all throughout British Columbia. Specializing in Slit Drainage Systems, GPS Turf Drains Inc. has incorporated a unique one-pass system that cuts a three-inch-wide, 10- to 22-inch-deep trench by a laser-controlled trenching wheel, while simultaneously filling the trench with a two-inch filtered plastic tubing and covering with three-millimeter sand. The sand is then packed down,
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Services we offer: • AERATION • PROCESSING • DEEP TINING • TOP DRESSING • OVERSEEDING • SYNTHETIC FIELD MAINTENANCE
SPECIALIZING IN SLIT DRAINAGE. Our unique ONE PASS system minimizes downtime and increased field playability all year round!
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re-topped and shoveled to leave a nice clean finish. Within as short time of the drainage project’s completion, the grass on adjacent sides of the trenches will begin to grow together, covering the sand surface while maintaining the proper infiltration of water to remove all surface pooling that makes fields unplayable. As a part of our turf maintenance program, which can be custom-suited to fit your turf requirements on a schedule that fits your budget, we offer the following services: aeration, top dressing, over-seeding, processing, and synthetic turf grooming and cleaning. It has been shown that with proper maintenance performed on a regular basis, your turf will benefit in the following ways: • Reduce thatch buildup • Reduce compaction of subsurface soils • Increase water filtration resulting in improved gas exchange and deeper root growth • Reduce growth of weeds • Reduce irrigation costs with drought resistant turf seeds • Improve and maintain uniformity of turf We have recently added a new member to GPS Turf Team – Don Coles, who brings 24 years of turf grass experience as a superintendent of the Salt Spring Island Golf Course. Coles has played a key role in the new endeavours of the company and is happy to share his knowledge with new and existing clients.
Check out the website at www.turfdrainage.com. We encourage you to contact us if you have any questions about the drainage or maintenance of your turf fields. íľş
