City engineers teamed with the golf course maintenance staff at
Meadow Lakes GC to harness windmill technology and get Meadow
Lakes smelling sweet again. Golfers at Meadow Lakes Golf Club in
Prineville, Ore., are enjoying their rounds much more, now that
unpleasant odors emanating from some of the course’s ten ponds
have disappeared, the Bend (Ore.) Bulletinreports. The problem
at Meadow Lakes, which is on property that doubles as the city’s
wastewater disposal facility, had been getting progressively
worse since the course opened 19 years ago. The rotten-egg smell
was especially bad when frozen ponds thawed, releasing gas that
had been trapped under ice, as well as in summer when algae
blooms fed off the warm water. Despite the dual-use nature of
the property, wastewater in the ponds was not the main issue,
reports Eric Klann, Prineville’s city engineer. Instead, the
source of the odor was typical of what occurs in many lakes and
ponds: stagnant water combined with rotting organic material,
such as leaves an