{"id":15428,"date":"2019-10-14T16:31:53","date_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=15428"},"modified":"2019-10-14T16:32:04","modified_gmt":"2019-10-14T20:32:04","slug":"bricks-drum-point-sports-complex-to-get-new-500k-turf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2019\/10\/bricks-drum-point-sports-complex-to-get-new-500k-turf\/","title":{"rendered":"Brick’s Drum Point Sports Complex to Get New $500K Turf Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Drum Point Sports Complex, Brick, N.J., Oct. 2019. (Photo: Daniel Nee)<\/p><\/div>\n

The Drum Point Sports Complex in Brick will receive a new turf surface, the result of a vote of the township council last week.<\/p>\n

Officials have said the field desperately needs new surfacing, as it has become both discolored and posed some safety issues. Councilwoman Heather deJong said her two kids play there and she\u2019s seen the issues firsthand.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe field itself is supposed to be green, because it\u2019s supposed to look like grass, but all it looks like is black because of all the black turf beads,\u201d deJong said. \u201cThe kids, they tend to get hurt more with the turf burn, especially when it is older.\u201d<\/p>\n

deJong\u2019s response was an explanation to one resident who questioned the cost of the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a little bit concerned that we\u2019re spending a half-million dollars on one field,\u201d said Vic Fanelli. \u201cIt\u2019s 12 years old \u2013 is it really in bad shape?\u201d<\/p>\n

Township Business Administrator Joanne Bergin said the turf field\u2019s life expectancy was actually 10 years, but members of the township\u2019s public works and parks departments have stretched its life to 12 years. Money was appropriated for the field in this year\u2019s capital budget.<\/p>\n

The new field will be installed by Shaw Sports Turf, a national provider of turf surfacing. It was purchased for $498,258 through a cooperative pre-set price list through the Educational Services Commission of New Jersey.<\/p>\n

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The Drum Point Sports Complex in Brick will receive a new turf surface, the result of a vote of the township council last week. Officials have said the field desperately needs new surfacing, as it has become both discolored and posed some safety issues. Councilwoman Heather deJong said her two kids play there and she\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-in-brick","category-government"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/IMG_5023.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-40Q","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}