HEB Court Repair Update

Over the past several years, HEB has done patchwork resurfacing of our tennis courts pretty much twice a year, and the results have been dismal. The courts look good for a brief period and then deteriorate rapidly, with bubbles, and irregularities. Management decided that enough was enough and hired a hydrologist to check out why this was happening, and ground water seepage was determined to be at blame. The question to be answered was where this water was coming from, landscape maintenance activities (best case) or underground water source (worst case). It has been studied and appears to be from landscape activities, so a fix should be pretty straight forward. Next step: install a french drain around the courts to divert water and then fix the courts.

By Friday of this week a second set of tests will be done on the courts to make sure that there isn't any significant water build up between the surface and the concrete pad below. So far it all looks good. If the next test comes back OK, then the bad areas on the courts will be patched (concrete) so the courts will be safe and playable for this season, and a real resurface will be done in the fall (probably October). This will allow us to play this season and have great courts next summer.

One other note: we have received an OK to put in a viewing area outside court 1.
This will include a flagstone pad and a couple of benches. The windscreen (lower
section) will be removed and bushes will be trimmed or removed so that folks can sit and watch play on courts one and two. This will be in the area between court one and the putting green. Completion date (at least this is what I have been told): Mid May.

Chuck Strauss, Co-President.