Friday, 24 October 2014 06:00
Greater Vernon's new sports facility by Okanagan College will be
doing some curing over the winter but is still set for a late spring
opening.
Regional director Bob Fleming says tenders are now being looked over for the buildings.
"Finding ways and presenting ways or potential ways that cost savings
could be made to come closer to our target, and so we're about to hear
back on that," he says.
Fleming says they're ready to lay the artificial track but that won't
happen until spring as it's felt to be too risky to put it in at this
time of year without curing time.
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High School Changes Plans for Artificial Turf Field
BY MONICA ALBA AND KEVIN MONAHAN
BURIEN, Wash. -- The additional $40,000 that Kennedy Catholic High School shelled out for a brand new artificial turf athletic field was worth it for the peace of mind it will bring for parents and players, school officials say.
The school was three days away from installing crumb rubber in a new $2.4 million artificial turf field – with pellets made from shredded car and truck tires used as cushion among the artificial blades of grass – when Principal Mike Prato and other school officials saw an NBC Nightly News report on Oct. 8 about concerns about potential long-term health effects from playing on such fields.
“My reaction was, ‘We can’t put this on our field,’” Prato said this week. “We felt like if we’re going to do it, we’re going to do it right. It’s going to be safe for generations to come.”
Instead the school went with the more-expensive alternative -- a field that uses “Nike Grind” – or recycled sneakers -– for cushioning instead of tires...
The school’s change of heart came after an NBC News investigation featuring University of Washington soccer coach Amy Griffin, who has compiled a list of 38 American soccer players -- 34 of them goalies -– who have been diagnosed with cancer, most commonly blood cancers like lymphoma and leukaemia.
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/high-school-changes-plans-artificial-turf-field-n232686
What is our track to be made of? The cheap stuff?
Yikes!!!
Scroll down for links:
http://www.synturf.org/warnings.html
"High Temps on Playing Fields Spark Safety Concerns":
"Lots of coaches and players love the benefits of artificial fields. There's no practice time or games lost to muddy conditions, and the fields are easy to maintain. They require no pesticides or water. But increasingly, municipalities are raising questions about extremely high temperatures on the playing fields when the weather is hot and sunny.
The first evidence of a "heat island" effect came a few years ago, when Columbia University climate researcher Stuart Gaffin analyzed thermal images generated from NASA satellite maps of New York City. He wanted to figure out how urban trees may help cool down neighborhoods. When Gaffin noticed a bunch of hot spots on the maps, he assumed they were rooftops. But he wanted to know for certain.
"So we picked five or six really hot locations in the Bronx and went to visit them, and two turned out to be turf fields" says Gaffin. In retrospect, he says he should have realized that, because they're a perfect sunlight-absorbing system..."
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=93364750
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