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“Low Maintenance” Turf? Invoices Expose Millions in Damage & Emergency Repairs at Maple Park in Ridgewood

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The $200K+ Paper Trail: How Maple Park’s Turf Field Keeps Draining Ridgewood Taxpayers

file photos courtesy of the Village of Ridgewood, Boyd Loving and other concerned citizens

the staff of the Ridgewood blog

Ridgewood NJ, When artificial athletic fields are pitched to local communities, the promise is almost always the same: low maintenance, instant playability after rain, and long-term savings. However, public records obtained from the Village of Ridgewood reveal a starkly different reality when synthetic turf meets severe weather.

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