The long-awaited roll-out of multi-sport, all-weather synthetic turf at Kareela Oval’s sporting fields began last Friday to make them match-ready by mid-March.
The $2.8million project will see the upgrade of fields two and three with a multi-purpose synthetic playing surface.
Synthetic surfaces are being used to accommodate the growing demand by sporting groups for the shire’s sporting fields.
The council considers the synthetic turf a viable alternative to grass because it can handle almost three times more usage than natural turf — or 60 hours a week compared with 25 hours a week.
Synthetic turf can be used in all types of weather.
Synthetic surfaces only need to be replaced every 8-10 years; turfed surfaces require annual renovations, costing several hundreds of thousands of dollars a year.
The turf is being rolled out on two football fields.
The project includes markings for mini-football fields, a synthetic cricket pitch and outfield, capacity for Oztag, lighting and fencing.
Sporting organisations will not be able to designate the new synthetic fields as their home ground to ensure that as many teams as possible are given the chance to use them.
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