Artificial Turf is being installed more and more on school playgrounds and athletic fields, where there is an estimated 3,500 across the country. They are easily maintained and said to be safe. But new concerns about health hazards have lead to two fields being closed and an investigation by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. ABC News recently sent out a news cast on "Unhealthy Playing Fields".
"Grass is what saves and holds the water that keeps life good and going......... It keeps the falling rain from flushing away.
Blades of grass take water from the air and transpire it into the ground. That works the other way around too. Because
grass blades help put water back into the air so that rain can fall again."
Theodore Roosevelt
(1858-1919)
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