I am currently in the process of installing a course. There are 4 or 5 baskets that lie in an area prone to flooding along a river. The township that is paying for the baskets is concerned about them washing away - is this a valid concern? Is there a different manner of installation (longer pole?) for baskets in a flood zone? Any input would be helpful.

Legion Park (http://www.pdga.com/course/courses_by_city.php?id=276) in Cedar Rapids/Marion Iowa is in the flood plain of a small stream. It floods annually. About the only problems experienced are occasionally some erosion around the cement teepads. Debris sometimes collects on the baskets during flooding.

Bunn, surely you've played the Jordan Creek and Little Lehigh Parkway courses in Allentown. At the former, holes 1-7 and holes 14-16 lie in a flood zone. At the latter, almost the entire front nine lies in a flood zone.

They've been swamped by heavy thunderstorms and the remnants of hurricanes and haven't gone anywhere. :cool:

maybe longer poles in slightly deeper concrete than "normal" would be a good idea. Quite possibly not necessary, though.
Is it a flashflood zone or an annual flood kinda place? That may make a difference in your strategy too.

I can vouch that clothesline poles in annual flood areas last, even through 3 months of flooding (see southeast Missouri, 1993)

Maybe a call to the US Army Corps of Engineers? Or a local levee oversight board or something?

steve