In the midst of the drought, Georgia Tech has devised a way to maintain the grass of its stadium's football field.
Some Tech graduates have engineered a way to tap into a spring water source running underneath campus--thus legally circumventing the outdoor water ban in north Georgia.
Wayne Hogan is the school's associate athletics director for public relations. He says a recent 25-thousand dollar project is making the water useful, and necessary for the field at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
"We've been capturing quite a bit of water in some tanks under the stadium, then a pumping system takes water from the tanks and feeds it into the stadium's irrigation system. We've been able to do that two or three times".
The spring water became a problem two years ago, when it threatened the foundations of Bobby Dodd Stadium. Until recently, the water had been diverted into city storm drains.
Hogan says using public water had a price tag of up to eight thousand dollars a year. He says this spring source could pay itself back in a few years.
Some Tech graduates have engineered a way to tap into a spring water source running underneath campus--thus legally circumventing the outdoor water ban in north Georgia.
Wayne Hogan is the school's associate athletics director for public relations. He says a recent 25-thousand dollar project is making the water useful, and necessary for the field at Bobby Dodd Stadium.
"We've been capturing quite a bit of water in some tanks under the stadium, then a pumping system takes water from the tanks and feeds it into the stadium's irrigation system. We've been able to do that two or three times".
The spring water became a problem two years ago, when it threatened the foundations of Bobby Dodd Stadium. Until recently, the water had been diverted into city storm drains.
Hogan says using public water had a price tag of up to eight thousand dollars a year. He says this spring source could pay itself back in a few years.
