Astroturf Pollution at High School Athletic Field
At the very beginning of its creation, the new unified school district board was poised to approve a measure that would install astroturf at the BUHS athletic field. Local residents dealt this pollutant boondoggle a serious set-back December 5, when the committee considered putting the project to a public vote, which the astroturf supporters didn’t want to do. The board was persuaded to postpone the project. Unfortunately the price of this maneuver is a $30,000 “engineering study”.
Then-BCS director Tim Maciel wrote to the School Board to urge them to get estimates from companies familiar with alternate turfing methods. Gale Associates did a preliminary study for the School Board, but failed to include an estimate for organically managed turf.
Before the public could see the preliminary report, the pandemic began and the issue was not taken up again by the School Board, nor is it expected to be taken up anytime soon.
Read Tim’s Letter to the WSESU Board 
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