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Grafton schools put stadium turf replacement on capital radar as operations staff detail repairs
Summary
Operations staff told the School Committee that the district’s stadium turf has exceeded its expected 10-year life and is showing tears and reduced bounce; officials discussed a roughly $750,000 replacement estimate and said the project is included in early capital planning.
GRAFTON — School operations staff told the Grafton School Committee the district’s synthetic stadium turf has exceeded its designed lifespan and is slated for capital replacement if funding is approved.
“750,000 is the estimate,” said Frank Rothwell during an operations update, describing multiple tears, patched sections of mismatched color and a loss of expected bounce in the center of the field. Rothwell said the turf’s design life was about 10 years and that the district is now in roughly its 14th…
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