>FLOOD: the fields will be cleaned and reopened in a fraction of the time it would take to clean and reopen them if they were grass
None of you have any idea of what you are talking about in regards to the make up of the “pellets” in the turf. They are not crumbs from old tires and they don’t float so the amount that were possibly washed away were minimal. And if everyone is so worried about the environmental aspect of pellets washing down river away from where we live where is your concern about what kind of contamination came down the river from the sewage treatment plant up in Waldwick?
That’s why the fields are closed and that would not be any different if they were grass, dirt, black top, concrete, denim, or any other surface. The fact that the fields are artificial grass is significant in only one way…..the fields will be cleaned and reopened in a fraction of the time it would take to clean and reopen them if they were grass. We’ve had the fields flood before (and they’re going to flood again) and the results were the same. You couldn’t see it because the fields were in such bad shape and were more or less dirt to begin with but the same silt, mud and debris were deposited and the fields were closed for weeks and longer. The new fields will get cleaned up and they’ll be back in service. The notion that somehow we wasted money putting them in just because we had a flood is a bunch of bullshit being used by the adjacent neighbors who are upset that the fields are being used, period. If those fields were still grass we’d have the exact same conditions as we have right now except the fields would be out of commission for the rest of the spring which is exactly what those neighbors were used to and would like to have happen again. Unfortunately for them that is water under the bridge, pun intended.
