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The 24 inch pipe is installed under the drainage channel and collects runoff from the adjacent turf areas through a series of catch basins in low areas. MEADOWBROOK GOLF COURSE Meadowbrook Golf Course is a 380 acre, 18 hole course located in Hopkins and St Louis Park, Minnesota, just west of Minneapolis. The course was constructed in 1926, and is owned and operated by the Minneapolis Park Board. Approximately 170 acres of the course are maintained as turf, building areas or roadways, (Table 1). The topography ranges from steeply rolling along the perimeter on the west, north and south, to a large flat area extending into the center of the course from the east. Over half of the course has slopes ranging from 8 to 18 percent. The hilly areas contain mainly poorly drained loam and clay loam soils with seasonally high water table near the surface. The low flat areas are composed of very poorly drained organic soils which are frequently inundated. Minnehaha Creek, the outflow stream from Lake Minnetonka flows through the course from north to south. Drainage from the course is west to east into a ditch which discharges to a large backwater of Minnehaha Creek named Meadowbrook Lake. An extensive drainage system consisting of the ditch and a series of tile lines has been Installed in the course. Numerous catch basins collect runoff water and divert it into a 12 inch concrete tile line which discharges into the drainage ditch near the outfall to Meadowbrook Lake. Because of the low position in the landscape, water from the ditch is pumped over a dike Into the Lake. Approximately 94 acres of the course drain through the concrete tile line. Runoff from areas not entering the tile drainage system flows directly into Meadowbrook Lake or Minnehaha Creek. WOODHILL COUNTRY CLUB Woodhill Country Club is a 225 acre, 18 hole private golf course located In the city of Orono near the northeast end of Lake Minnetonka. Woodhill Country Club was established in 1915. Approximately 160 acres of the 225 acre course are maintained as turf. The course also contains 20 acres of wetlands and 40 acres of mature woodlots. The remainder of the course is developed as building sites, parking lots, and roadways. Specific acreages of land use types are shown in Table 1. The topography on the course varies from gently rolling to very steep, with 10 percent of the slopes in excess of 18 percent. The majority of the course is underlain by well drained loamy soils of the Hayden Series. These soils have a moderate permeability with the water table below five feet in all seasons. The southeast potion of the course includes an extensive level area of organic soils. These soils have low permeability with the water table near the surface.