FEED/DRAIN SYSTEM KEEPS ATHLETIC TURF HEALTHY

This article describes the Prescription Athletic Turf (PAT[R]) system which keeps a constant level of moisture available to 130,000 square feet of specially bred grass in the Turner Stadium, Atlanta, Georgia. The PAT system is a computerized, fully automated system, with touch-screen controls which can drain 102,000 gallons of water an hour. The vacuum-enhanced drainage system includes more than four miles of buried piping that also allows sub-irrigation -- watering the grass roots directly with underground "sprinklers."

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• Corporate Authors:

  Public Works Journal Corporation

  200 South Broad Street
  Ridgewood, NJ  United States  07451
• Publication Date: 1999-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 26-27
• Serial:
  • Public Works
  • Volume: 130
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Hanley Wood
  • ISSN: 0033-3840
  • Serial URL: http://www.pwmag.com

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Drainage structures; Grasses; Irrigation and drainage structures; Stadiums; Turf
• Uncontrolled Terms: Athletic fields; Sprinklers
• Geographic Terms: Atlanta (Georgia)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Hydraulics and Hydrology; I26: Water Run-off - Freeze-thaw;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00760006
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 11 1999 12:00AM