Hiawatha update: New turf needs to be replaced already

(WSB photo from last Tuesday)
Just last week, we showed you crews putting down the new artificial turf for Hiawatha Playfield. Got word this afternoon from project manager Garrett Farrell that it turned out to be defective, so it has to be pulled up and replaced, which is sliding the completion schedule a bit. He says:

Contractor Field Turf began installing the new artificial turf on October 6th. Defects were found in the fabric and they have moved immediately to replace the product at Hiawatha.

The first load of new material will be on site Friday 10/16/09 with the balance arriving next week.

This delay has impacted our project schedule. All remaining work at Hiawatha is weather dependent.

Parks is actively coordinating the re start of the field turf installation with rubber surfacing of the new track scheduled to start 10/19/09.

Farrell adds, “Field Turf has done several great installs for Parks and knew right away that this was not consistent with the product they supplied to date. The old stuff will stay in place until we get all the new stuff here next week; then it will get replaced.” Watch the Hiawatha project website for schedule updates – according to Farrell, if the weather isn’t too bad, intensive efforts by FieldTurf could keep them on track for completion before Thanksgiving.

1 Reply to "Hiawatha update: New turf needs to be replaced already"

  • WSHC October 12, 2009 (7:55 pm)

    Glad they caught it now instead of later. Super excited about this field finally being turf (after years of skinned knees and crap soccer matches). Hooray!

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