Council Members Call on County to Test Artificial Turf Fields for Toxic Substances:
...A spokesperson for Montgomery Parks couldn’t be reached Tuesday
morning. Patrick Lacefield, a spokesperson for Leggett, said he was
looking into the county’s response to the testing request.
According to the Parents’ Coalition, a group that bills itself as a
watchdog of Montgomery County Public Schools, Parks officials did test
its artificial turf fields at Blair High School and Wheaton Regional
Park in 2013.
The group recently republished
a February 2013 email from Mike Riley, now the director of Montgomery
Parks, in which Riley reported the lead content in turf fibers at the
Blair High School field was less than could be measured.
Riley also wrote the maximum lead content found in the Wheaton
Regional Park field was 8.88 milligrams per every kilogram, “far less
than the threshold of 400 [milligrams per every kilogram] established by
[Maryland Department of Environment], and less than found in typical
eastern U.S. surface soils.”
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