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The school district is making a large mistake and jeopardizing the safety of the athletes by trying to "burn" lines. Please do not support this effort of a school district taking a short cut. Once they "burn" lines, it exposes a trip or ankle-turn hazard because the turf and thatch is depleted to the soil. Overtime the depletion of turf cost more to renovate. So, the take home message is, we need to support the use of a latex based paint, cut with water. Even aerosols can produce the same results as a "burn down" if aerosols are used improperly. From an environmental perspective, I believe latex based paint, cut with water is the most acceptable. I only use lime chalk on the skin "dirt" areas of our softball and baseball then latex based paint on the turf out to the foul poles. I would recommend the school district work closely with a reputable turf paint company ,like Pioneer. http://www.pioneer-mfg.com/ Mark Frever Albion College Grounds Supervisor 611 E. Porter Street Albion, MI 49224 (517) 629-0227 mfrever@albion.edu >>> "Kathy Barwick" <KBarwick@dtsc.ca.gov> 7/18/2007 03:40:10 PM >>> hi everyone. Anyone know of preferable options for "burning" soccer field lines? see comments below....
----------------------- ... they use lacquer thinner to burn the lines. He did not know of an alternative. One of our school districts telephoned me to ask if we knew of an environmentally safe chemical that they could use to burn lines on their soccer field. She said they are currently painting lines, and she thought that paint was not environmentally acceptable. Sports field lining could be made, using a paint machine or lime powder machine, over the natural grass or artificial turf. Some clean out grass from the lining area and make it dirt ground before lining is applied. Cleanout may be accomplished by applying weed killer or burning the area with paint thinner or gasoline. Kathy Barwick Dept. of Toxic Substances Control Office of Pollution Prevention (916) 323-3381 or (916) 255-6421 fax (916) 255-3595 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * P2TECH is hosted by the Great Lakes Information Network: http://www.great-lakes.net To unsubscribe from this list: send mail to majordomo@great-lakes.net with the command 'unsubscribe p2tech' in the body of your message. No quotes or subject line are required. About : http://www.great-lakes.net/lists/p2tech/p2tech.info. A map of P2TECH subscribers can be viewed at http://www.frappr.com/p2tech. This list is managed by the Great Lakes Regional Pollution Prevention Roundtable (http://www.glrppr.org), part of the P2Rx national network of regional P2 information centers (http://www.p2rx.org ). |