Turf Wars School District Debates Surface Of New Fields

November 7, 2019 The debate over the type of turf to install on the Sonoma Valley Unified School District’s proposed new athletic complex is still under debate, with supporters of both synthetic...

Oct 12, 2017· Updated on October 16, 2017. Earlier this year, the Middle School Building Committee in North Haven, Connecticut, voted unanimously to install two new artificial-turf fields at a

TURF WARS: Debate surfaces over $534K field makeover... approach the cost new artificial surface, he said. Also, the new turf would be more resistant to the sun and rated to last two years longer...

Artificial turf on Twin Cities athletic fields is thought to be new enough that lead is not likely a problem. But one school is testing its field to be safe.

EDITOR: I read the article about a new surface for the playing fields at the high school “Turf Wars: School District Debates Surface of New Fields,” Nov. 8. I was really surprised to see...

May 12, 2015· But opinion is divided about the fake fields. Crumbs of evidence. School Administrative District 51 is now considering plans for a $1.6 million turf field at Greely High School

Turf wars: More and more high schools are installing artificial turf for their athletic fields.... Most turf fields are made of recycled rubber tire crumb.... While Noonan believes there is a...

Feb 18, 2007· The popularity of synthetic turf fields at the high school level began growing in the late 1990s when the industry started experimenting with a surface made

TURF WARS: Debate surfaces over $534K field makeover... approach the cost new artificial surface, he said. Also, the new turf would be more resistant to the sun and rated to last two years longer...

As more grass fields are converted to synthetic turf according to a spokesperson for the Synthetic Turf Council in Atlanta about 900 new synthetic turf fields were installed at schools nationwide in 2008, however, a debate has been heating up about possible health risks and the advantages and disadvantages of artificial turf fields.

Oct 02, 2015· The Los Angeles Unified School District, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation, and Montgomery County, Maryland, all ban the use of crumb rubber in any fields built going forward. Although artificial turf looked like a winner when it was introduced, the contest between synthetic and grass fields has become a hard-fought race.

Turf wars with TRPA continue... Now the school district has placed artificial turf at the awesome new middle school field and are dealing with the same issues. The TRPA is making the school...

May 12, 2015· But opinion is divided about the fake fields. Crumbs of evidence. School Administrative District 51 is now considering plans for a $1.6 million turf field at Greely High School

Dec 07, 2016· FieldTurf replaced tattered turf at two high schools in the Burbank Unified School District, said board President Larry Applebaum. The fields were installed in

Feb 06, 2002· Turf Wars: A New Synthetic-Grass Product Takes the Field... Trading in the wear and tear of grass fields for a surface that doesn't need much upkeep has

Nov 24, 2015· And now, according to Synthetic Turf Council research, the U.S. has over 12,000 synthetic crumb-rubber fields across the country in schools, parks and multisport facilities.

SQHS Phase 1: The existing grass PE/soccer/football field located adjacent to the lower parking lot will be replaced with a new synthetic turf field. The existing synthetic surface running track surrounding the existing field will receive a new synthetic surface. A possible tennis training wall will be constructed if funds allow. (Phase 2 will replace the existing grass baseball, softball, PE/soccer/football fields

Apr 18, 2019· A packed room greets North Haven selectmen in May 2017 during the town’s contentious debate over crumb rubber turf fields. Photo courtesy of Hearst Connecticut Media The school district moved forward this year with crumb rubber, after bids for plant-based material added as much as $250,000 to the price of each field.

Apr 25, 2019· The new generation of artificial turf was billed as a win-win, providing a destination for junk tires and a more cushioned playing surface for children and athletes. But there was a noticeable...

Jul 08, 2014· Bonner Springs was the first area school to switch to an artificial surface, installing turf by Canadian-based company Sportexe in 2006. Other neighboring schools have followed suit in the not-too-distant past. Piper had a turf field installed in 2008, while Basehor-Linwood and Frontier League school Eudora each did so two years later.

“Silver Gate Principal Maria Fowler took the issue to the school’s governance team,” promising if a majority of the group wanted the new turf field, things would proceed. The team assembled on June 8th and had their discussion “in a classroom just a stone’s throw away from the field, which currently consists of decomposed granite.”

MIDWAY through field hockey season last fall, K. J. Warren, the captain of the Mamaroneck High School varsity squad, would begin practices by arranging blue tarps on the field to protect it from impending rain. The team, which won a New York State championship in 2004, had already missed several important practices because of poor field conditions and could not afford to skip more.

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