>April showers leave wrinkles on Ridgewood fields
Monday, April 25, 2011
BY KELLY EBBELS
THE RIDGEWOOD NEWS
Staff Writer
Another weekend of heavy rains and flooding from the Ho-Ho-Kus Brook damaged the artificial turf fields at Ridgewood High School, and prompted a new flurry of concern from neighboring residents.
A district worker cleans Stevens Field. The district hired a company to clean the fields after they were flooded in March, but decided this month to do the cleanup in-house.
Consecutive days of rain in March also left the fields flooded, and a cleanup effort following those storms was still under way when recent rainfall dropped on the village.
The cleanup last week was proceeding differently at village and school fields than in March. After paying a private contractor to clean the fields last month ($21,000 for the RHS fields and $9,500 for Maple Park Field), both the village and school district chose to use in-house employees last week. The village and school district rented a sweeper to clean the fields.
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