This is what heavy rainfall can do to a bunker

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Having supplied Celtic Manor Resort for in excess of 20 years, Whitemoss has seen the issues caused by heavy rain that not only runs off the hillside on the Twenty Ten course but that also runs through the soil structure.

The image showing the devastated 18th bunker was taken during one of the Wales Open events!

Working with Jim McKenzie and his project team headed by Chris and Alan, Andy Law and Mike Crabtree devised a solution that would intercept the water coming through the soil on the bank adjacent to the Twenty Ten clubhouse. They then installed a full herringbone drainage system in the bunker base to take the run off and any water falling directly into the bunker away quickly. The MegaFlo flat panel drainage supplied exclusively by Whitemoss was installed in less than three hours! Typical round pipe drains requiring excavation of trenches and stone backfill would have taken in excess of a full day to install requiring an excavator, tractor, trailer and so on. MegaFlo is two and a half times more efficient at moving water too, so it’s a win-win.

BunkerMat liner was then installed to prevent subsoil contamination, to retain sand on the bunker faces and to offer a consistent, stable bunker base.

The bunker was completed with the installation of 56 tonnes of WhitemossEco Bunker 4 sand.

This was the biggest bunker WhitemossEco has installed to date at 354m2! It used 140 linear metres of MegaFlo including the perimeter drain and the full herringbone system.