{"id":55903,"date":"2026-08-25T15:56:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/55903\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T15:56:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T15:56:10","slug":"vote-on-buena-vista-golf-course-pond-dredging-in-dekalb-drives-forward-shaw-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/55903\/","title":{"rendered":"Vote on Buena Vista Golf Course pond dredging in DeKalb drives forward \u2013 Shaw Local"},"content":{"rendered":"

In a bit of par for the course, leaders from the DeKalb Park District<\/a> took steps recently to address the potential for public health concerns over the pond at Buena Vista Golf Course. <\/p>\n

A pond dredging, as approved by the DeKalb<\/a> Park Board in a 4-0 vote on Aug. 20, is not anticipated to interfere with course operations as golfers take to the green for the remainder of this season or the next. <\/p>\n

Executive Director Paul Zepezauer noted the variables that the park district has to weigh to mitigate the public health concerns surrounding the pond. <\/p>\n

\u201cWhile some pond algae can be toxic, this pond is located in an area that doesn\u2019t see regular foot traffic from anyone but golfers, so it\u2019s relatively low risk for public health concerns,\u201d Zepezauer said. \u201cAlthough we certainly would not want anyone swimming in this pond. This is being addressed because it\u2019s a long-term solution to remove the conditions that cause the algae.\u201d<\/p>\n

Year after year, algae begins to form in the pond, which Mike Siefken, the district\u2019s golf maintenance superintendent, said is problematic, as it has prompted the park district to have to treat it every two weeks. <\/p>\n

One such thing, he said, that\u2019s helped is setting up an air diffuser to add oxygen to the water. <\/p>\n

\u201cBut there\u2019s so much sediment in that pond that the nutrients are just in abundance and that\u2019s fueling all the algae that we have,\u201d Siefken said. <\/p>\n

Zepezauer said timing is of the essence for the park district. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily a clean process,\u201d Zepezauer said. \u201cIf they\u2019re not going to show up and be gone, there\u2019s going to be a leftover pile of stuff that we have to deal with. That\u2019s why I want to do it in the fall, because that way, by the time it dries out in the spring, we can hopefully get it out before the peak in the fall season.\u201d<\/p>\n

The park district has decided to contract with Necedah, Wisconsin-based Organic Sediment Removal Systems to perform the pond dredging for $126,825. <\/p>\n

Zepezauer said the park district does not anticipate operations will be affected much, if at all. <\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be at least one collection bag near the pond outside of the playing area that will be visible for about 6 months and will need to be reseeded once it\u2019s removed, but that should be the extent of what affects operations,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Work on the pond at Buena Vista Golf Course is expected to get underway within the next 6 weeks. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a bit of par for the course, leaders from the DeKalb Park District took steps recently to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3337,20989,20988,44,373,899,18384],"class_list":["post-55903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-breaking","tag-dekalb","tag-dekalb-county","tag-golf","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-shaw-local-front-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/golf\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}