Raising track approved, to improve drainage

As football season approaches, drainage has been an issue at area schools’ football fields and tracks. Clarksville School Board discussed drainage around its track on Wednesday, Aug. 17.
Superintendent Randy Strabala, board members Justin Clark and Phil Barnett, and maintenance superintendent Bob Bartlett, went out to the track in the rain one day to see where water was gathering, Strabala said.
The metal railing keeping the lime in the track can be thought of similar to a garden border or edging strip used to keep rocks or mulch out of the grass. Raising the “railing” along the inside of the oval to slope the water outward was approved, as was bringing in extra lime. Work on the project was continuing on Sunday, Strabala said early this week.
“By bringing some (crushed lime) in, it would keep the water from pooling on the track. It would drain off, because the track in most places would be higher” than the grassy area, Strabala said.
Read the full article in the August 25 edition of the Star.