sprinkling system

The ship’s own internal foam sprinkling system wasn’t used, in part because of maintenance problems and the crew’s unfamiliarity with the system, Navy investigators found.

Back then, she and Mr. Buerge, who lives in the historic Spanish Colonial Revival and recently upgraded his exterior wildfire sprinkling system with 16 agriculture-grade pumps, stayed behind in spite of county evacuation orders.

Additional crews were called to help douse the blaze inside the business with the help of the commercial sprinkling system that had kept the flames in check.

“The advent of the bulldozer has been as perverse an influence on the game as the automatic sprinkling system. . . There are too many aquatic architects. . . Too much water on too many courses in this country. In many cases, it strikes me as another copout by the architect. He uses water rather than his wit to provide a suitable challenge. “I am also distressed by what I call the arboretum syndrome.

To get rid of insects and snakes, they stripped six inches of soil off a 2-sq.-mi. area, replaced it with soft turf and a specially constructed water sprinkling system.