A NUMBER of readers have been in touch wondering about the huge pile of dirt and other strange configurations on the Odana Hills golf course that are easily visible while driving by the course on the Beltline.
….What is being constructed at Odana, underground between the sixth and eighth holes, is a large storm water infiltration facility in the Lake Wingra watershed.
It’s part of a deal struck among the city, state and Madison Gas & Electric that includes the new MGE West Campus co-generation plant, which will draw water from Lake Mendota. In return, MGE is providing the facility under Odana, which will filter storm water retained in the large Odana pond to the left of the 15th fairway and then pump the clean water into the soil, where it will infiltrate to the water table, eventually making its way toward Lake Wingra.