Being a park manager is not an easy job at the best of times. Grass cutting and maintenance operations have to be carried out when park users are enjoying their surroundings.
Keeping the grass in tip top condition is always a challenge for grounds staff and with parks also getting a funding boost for restorations and improvements the facilities are seeing increased activity.
In August 2008, St James' Park in London held the Olympic handover ceremony concert. As a result the grass areas of the park were left with severe compaction caused by foot traffic, the stage area and vehicles used for delivering staging and outside broadcasting units.
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The winter is a difficult time for any business but it is especially difficult for any sports related business that utilises natural grass on which participants play.
Golf is a popular all year round pastime with all clubs becoming under increased pressure to maintain its greens to a high playable standard with many members showing little understanding of the challenges a greenkeeper and his staff face on a day to day basis, in order to achieve what are at times undeliverable targets.
Waterlogged green are a common problem, especially on older golf courses that were often constructed without any form of drainage systems to take water from saturated the soil structure.
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