SportsTurf

September 2016

SportsTurf provides current, practical and technical content on issues relevant to sports turf managers, including facilities managers. Most readers are athletic field managers from the professional level through parks and recreation, universities.

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FACILITY & OPERATIONS 16 SportsTurf | September 2016 www.sportsturfonline.com ■ BY TAB BUCKNER manufactures specifications, and no perimeter trench drain between the field and the track were the causes of the field not draining at the 250 mm/hour as specified in the original construction tender documents. To mitigate some of these drainage issues an internal perimeter drain line was installed under the synthetic turf to intercept the track water runoff and a surfactant was applied twice a year to the synthetic turf to improve infiltration. The Township decided in 2012 that the synthetic turf field at McLeod Athletic Park would be replaced between March 18 and June 7, 2013. The reason this time period was selected was to minimize disruption to field users and have the project completed before provincial and national track events at the park in the months of June and July. Generally this type of work occurs in the summer when rainfall accumulation is very small and does not delay the project. For the project to be completed on time the Township was hoping for a dry spring and, luckily, it happened. REPLACING SYNTHETIC TURF: A CASE STUDY Editor's note: This article was originally published by Sports Turf Canada's Sports Turf Manager, Vol. 28, No. 4, Winter 2015, edition. Our thanks to Lee Huether of Sports Turf Canada and author Tab Buckner for allowing us to reprint. I n 2003 the first synthetic turf field in the Township of Langley was installed at McLeod Athletic Park. The synthetic turf replaced an existing natural turf sand-based field inside an eight-lane track. After the synthetic turf field was constructed drainage issues on the field became problematic following heavy rainfall events. Even after minor rainfall there was ponding water on sections of the field. The Township of Langley is located 30 km east of the City of Vancouver in the rain forest of British Columbia. It was determined that the over compaction of the base gravels, infiltration rates of the synthetic turf below

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