Alamosa is showing that even a public golf course can become a serious water-conservation project when the infrastructure is designed for efficiency.
Cynthia Koehler of WaterNow points to Cattails Golf Course, where the city replaced an aging irrigation system with more precise technology while preserving a heavily used community recreation asset.
The upgrade was made possible in part by a Bureau of Reclamation WaterSMART Water and Energy Efficiency Grant, which helped close the gap on a project the city had already been planning and budgeting for.
That federal funding mattered because conservation infrastructure still requires capital—whether the project is a pipeline, a meter, or a more efficient irrigation system.
WaterNow helped Alamosa identify and pursue the funding needed to move the project forward.
Koehler says the broader lesson is easy to miss: conservation is not free, and relatively modest grants can have an outsized impact for smaller communities trying to modernize infrastructure.
In Alamosa, that investment is helping reduce water use while strengthening a public asset the community already values.
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