Review of Seattle Fields
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Van Asselt Elementary (SE)
• ‘Sprinturf’-brand
• Field Completed
2007
• Photo shows
pellets spilling on
to track
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Denny Middle/Sealth HS (SW)
• ‘Fieldturf’-brand
• Fields completed 2004 & 05
• Pallets of pellets, equipment for
‘overseeding’ rubber
• Rubber pellets migrate onto
sidewalk
• Giant field complex completely
locked to kids & public after school
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Salmon Bay School (NW)
• Tarkett/Prestige brand
• Installed 2007
• Pellets migrate onto
concrete ring, down
sidewalk
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Loyal Heights Playfield (NW)
• ‘Fieldturf’-brand
• Installed 2006/07
• Heavily pellet
application runs
onto utility covers
and into city
drainage
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Roosevelt High School (NE)
• ‘A Turf’ brand
• Installed 2006
• Football/soccer field is
surrounded by concrete
drainage moat,
interspersed with
sewage drains
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Roosevelt, continued
• Pellets fill moat, go down drain
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Whitman Middle School (NW)
• ‘Sprinturf’ brand
• Installed 2007
• School still using
portable
classrooms, but
has new artificial
fields
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Whitman continued
• Rubber pellets
visible next to
sewage drain
• Overgrown
brush on old
staircase
hampers public
access
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Rubber pellets on the field =
rubber pellets in the Sound
• The nature of
plastic and
rubber fields
require
substantial
maintenance,
including
regular
application of
rubber pellets
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