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What's New at Marvel?

Marvel's Gray Wins "Intelligent Use of Water"
Award from Rain Bird
Rain Bird has named Christopher S. Gray Sr.,
GCSAA Class A superintendent at Marvel Golf Club
in Benton, Ky, as the recipient of the 2008
Intelligent Use of Water Award.
Gray has been extremely proactive in developing
and implementing innovative water conservation
programs both on and off the golf course. Most
recently, he has led the development and
implementation of a very unique wastewater
recapture program in which all storm water and
household wastewater generated by the homes
surrounding the golf course is captured, treated
and pumped into the course's irrigation
retention ponds where it is used to irrigate the
course.
"I believe it is very important to use water as
intelligently as possible and it is our
responsibility as an industry to commit to
finding alternative sources of water to meet the
needs of golf courses," said Gray. "We need to
leave this world a better place for future
generations. None of us wants our children to
have to worry about where their water is going
to come from."
Harvesting more than 14 million gallons of
reclaimed water per year, the innovative system
eliminates the need to pull water from the local
water district or nearby Kentucky Lake for
irrigation purposes and significantly reduces
the risk of any lake contamination from the use
of pesticides and fertilizers on the golf
course.
"Beyond water savings, the system has proven to
be beneficial in a number of ways as it helps
keep Kentucky Lake clean, and significantly
reduces the amount of energy used by the course
as we no longer need to pump water out of the
lake," added Gray.
Rain Bird will present Gray with a check for
$10,000 in acknowledgment of his contributions
toward protecting Earth's most precious resource
at the Intelligent Use of Water Film
Competition, Oct. 11, 2008, in Los Angeles. For
more about The Intelligent Use of Water, visit
http://www.rainbird.com/iuow/.
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