Guidance manual for design and maintenance of environmentally sensitive golf courses in New Jersey

The objectives of this manual are: To provide guidance and identification of administrative procedures for the application of permits associated with the development of a golf course; To provide general guidelines for the design of a golf course including site selection, restricted areas of development, location of ponds and irrigation wells, and maintenance of undisturbed vegetated buffers adjacent to streams, wetlands, and other water bodies, etc.; To provide guidance for performing pollution impact assessments including modeling to predict water quality impacts; To provide strategies for controlling the quality of stormwater runoff; To provide guidance for the design of water quality sampling/monitoring programs for surface water bodies and ground waters at proposed golf course sites; To provide guidance for best management practices (BMPs) to minimize environmental impacts stemming from the operation of a golf course; To provide guidance for the application of pesticides and fertilizers; and To provide guidelines as to when remedial actions should be rendered if the impacts on receiving water bodies and/or ground water are identified