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Review of Seattle Fields
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Van Asselt Elementary (SE)

• Sprinturf-brand
• Field Completed 2007
• Photo shows pellets spilling on to track

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Denny Middle/Sealth HS (SW)

• Fieldturf-brand
• Fields completed 2004 05
• Pallets of pellets, equipment for overseeding
  rubber
• Rubber pellets migrate onto sidewalk
• Giant field complex completely locked to kids
  public after school

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Salmon Bay School (NW)

• Tarkett/Prestige brand
• Installed 2007

• Pellets migrate onto concrete ring, down sidewalk

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Loyal Heights Playfield (NW)

• Fieldturf-brand
• Installed 2006/07
• Heavily pellet application runs onto utility
  covers and into city drainage

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Roosevelt High School (NE)

• A Turf brand
• Installed 2006
• Football/soccer field is surrounded by concrete
  drainage moat, interspersed with sewage drains

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Roosevelt, continued

• Pellets fill moat, go down drain

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Whitman Middle School (NW)

• Sprinturf brand
• Installed 2007
• School still using portable classrooms, but has
  new artificial fields

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Whitman continued

• Rubber pellets visible next to sewage drain
• Overgrown brush on old staircase hampers public
  access

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Rubber pellets on the field rubber pellets in
the Sound

• The nature of plastic and rubber fields require
  substantial maintenance, including regular
  application of rubber pellets