San Diego Schools Neglecting Field Safety Tests

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Data obtained through a survey by the Voice of San Diego shows that very few public schools in San Diego county are conducting regular field tests to monitor the hardness of turf fields. Only a few school districts could report having ever tested their fields, and of those, several conducted one test immediately after installation and then never again.

The G-Max test measures the hardness of a turf field by dropping a weight on the surface and measuring how quickly the weight is slowed. The test is conducted at diverse points on the field and multiple drops are made at each point. An average of those scores is taken as the field score. A newly installed field will often score around 100 gs on the G-Max test, and scores up to 200 gs are still considered acceptable for play. 

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