Golf Course Runoff Fears

After reading about the quasi-positive EIR report on the proposed Farmont golf course (“Study Says Golf Course Wouldn’t Harm Area,” May 23), I realize that a very important issue is not being addressed or acknowledged.

As I have come to understand the maintenance and theory of golf courses, I learned that they require tons of possibly toxic and/or questionable chemical mixtures to develop and maintain that “natural green’ look. Should that be the case at the Farmont course, where will the poisons leech to when the constant irrigation liquefies them and slowly seeks gravity?

Mind you, I like golf. I have always dreamed of taking my hickory-shafted clubs to Scotland to play at St. Andrews. It should therefore be noted that I do not oppose a course, in general, but I oppose the volatility of having a large dose of toxic carcinogens leeching into the underground aquifers that feed directly into Lake Casitas.

Should anyone doubt the seriousness of this thought, one needs only to visit the River Ridge course in Oxnard and look at the man-made lakes filled with bloated dead fish. It seems that no one thought enough about the proximity of the man-made lakes and the leeching or the runoff of the poisons into the fishponds.

ALLEN ROBERT CARROZZA

Ojai