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CRITIQUE OF DR. PETROVIC'S 12/30/02 REVIEW
OF
GOLF COURSE SUPERINTENDENT'S 2001 ANNUAL REPORT
(Petrovic's comments are in italics, mine in plain type)
Petrovic says they: "only applied 4,971 lbs. of nitrogen as fertilizer in 2001."
However, Petrovic neglects to say that the TOTAL poundage of "2001 Fertilizer Applications" as shown in the Superintendent's Report is 52,260 lbs. (Petrovic doesn't say what the inert ingredients are in the balance of these products-Scotts, Replenish, etc-as inerts can be as bad as active ingredients.)
He neglects to say that over 50 % of his former recommendations made in the Petrovic & Cambareri Report of 1/5/99 have not been followed. In fact, in this review (and his Reports I - VII) , he even retreats from his former recommendations and lets stand the very things he criticized in 1998 and 1999 about the developer's intended protocols and methods. He gives no reason why this about-face.
Of "Task 7"-Petrovic says: "The frequency of application & number of fungicides used is appropriate for a golf course of this nature and meets the requirements set forth by the Planning Board."-(In what way? What about tolerating damage? That was precisely his criticism in 1998-1999 in his Petrovic & Cambareri Report, 1999-that they should tolerate some damage-when he wrote that upscale golf courses "of this nature" didn't accept any damage to the greens and so adopted a no damage "threshold". He is wrong when he says it "meets requirements set forth by the Planning Board". It was an issue that was never settled one way or the other prior to their approval of the golf course in 1999.
In this review Petrovic does "recommend that the golf course experiment with new pesticide alternative products/methods to determine if they work at Golf at the Bridge" (page 6).
In this review, nor in his Reports I-VII, Petrovic never mentions that they are NOT using the "low-flow" sampling method which he recommended and that was agreed upon in an amendment in the "Monitoring Agreement"
On page 5 - Task 30, Petrovic says: "The 'written discharge response plan' training of employees has not been done. " --Petrovic neglects to say: Why it hasn't been done? When will they do it? The upshot is that Dr. Petrovic has not addressed issues (or, satisfactorily answered questions put to him by the SFGTF) that ought to be addressed, and that have ultimately to deal with the quality of the groundwater and people's health and welfare.
 South Fork Groundwater Task Force
PO BOX 2360 Sag Harbor, NY 11963
Phone/Fax: 631 - 725 - 6200
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