In 2013, Parents' Coalition Made Public Lead in County Artificial Turf Fields. The Council Did Nothing.

In 2013, the Parents' Coalition asked about the lead levels of the artificial turf on County Park fields.  We received the information from the then Deputy Director of Parks, Mike Riley.

We made the information public in this blog post:  Lead Level Up 8 Times in New FieldTurf Artificial Turf

Below is the text from the original e-mail from Mr. Riley.  The County Council also received this information from Mr. Riley back in 2013.  Yet, today, Councilmembers are asking for the County artificial turf fields to be tested for lead, as if they have completely forgotten that testing was already done, and they have the results.

Yes, there is lead in the County artificial turf fields. There always has been, but Councilmembers and County Executive Ike Leggett have ignored this reality.

From: Riley, Mike [M-NCPPC Deputy Director of Parks Department in 2013]
Sent: Monday, February 04, 2013 4:53 PM

...The result for the lead in the turf fibers at Blair High School was <0.98mg/kg. This means the lead content was less than the lowest limit of analytical detection of 0.98mg/kg.

For the Wheaton Sports Pavilion, the maximum lead result on any component was 8.88 mg/kg, found in the NIKE GRIND infill. As this result was far less than the threshold of 400 mg/kg established by MDE, and less than found in typical eastern U.S. surface soils, Parks accepted the materials.

I trust this answers your questions.