CTV News Edmonton has reported:

Meadowview Golf and Country Club, just west of St. Albert, is repairing flood damage after Edmonton experienced its wettest summer on record. In June and July, neighbouring Big Lake rose over a berm and left parts of the course under two to three feet of water.

“For about half the year we’ve only been playing the front nine holes,” said club general manager Mattea Piseopo. “Probably we lost two thirds of the season.” The flooding destroyed the club’s nursery and holes 13 and 14, and forced it to tear up seven fairways.

Superintendent John Porter said the club lost about half of its regular revenue. “This water was roughly knee-deep for six weeks,” he said. “It started late June and just never went away.” Across Edmonton, basements, fields and golf courses flooded during the record-wet summer.

The club has started resodding, using sod donated by Twin Willows, which announced it was closing in June. “We knew that Twin Willows was closing, so we approached the owner,” Piseopo said. “He was gracious enough to give us all the sod we wanted for free.” Porter said, “This wouldn’t have happened without them.”

Piseopo said the recovery effort initially felt overwhelming but involved a team and substantial help. “It was overwhelming at the beginning, but we got going. We had lots of help … it was a team,” she said. “We’re going to be ready for next year.” She is confident the club will be fully open in the spring.

Porter said work remains, and the club hopes favourable weather will allow it to finish repairs and prepare the course for winter. “We’re just doing as much as we can, as fast as we can,” he said. “There are going to be a lot of areas that we will have to deal with later, but the primary area will be playable by the spring, we’re hoping.” The report included files from CTV News Edmonton’s Nahreman Issa.