I had worked many jobs over the years with Mike DeVries, but never one as complicated as this! We worked throughout the summer in extremely soft conditions on top of a peat bog which was covered in a thin layer of landfill. The material we had to work with was less than ideal, to say the least. Luckily for Mike, as the lead project associate, I planned to bring over 3000 yards of clean rocky fill to the site, for us to work with.

Besides the soft conditions of the peat itself, Mike had devised a plan to bring in fill and build enough pitch to drain two of the worst holes on the golf course into a man-made creek, which would then be pumped to a holding reservoir so the golf course would save from buying hundreds of thousands of dollars of city water for course irrigation. It was a fascinating project from a drainage and engineering point of view and we were able to create some memorable golf holes which not only improved the golf course strategically but practically as well.