Carson City Supervisors approve grass-to-turf field conversions while across the country, cities ban its use due to heat, PFAS concerns

By Kelsey Penrose | CarsonNow.org | August 22, 2025

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"Carson City Supervisors approved a contract Thursday to convert grass fields to artificial turf in the upper softball fields within JohnD Winters Centennial Park. 

The decision to swap turf for grass has been controversial in the past due to the heat turf can absorb and put off, but staff also believes it could save around 8 millions of water each year currently used for irrigation. However, for this contract approval, there was little input from the community according to supplemental meeting materials. 

The planning for Centennial Park changes have been ongoing for a few years now, as has the plan to swap for turf: back in March, supervisors also approved encapsulated rubber to use as infill material beneath the artificial turf over safe shell, olive pits, tumbled wood, cork, tire crumb rubber, and coconut."

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