Filed under: Irrigation, Field Maintenance, Miscellaneous, Athletic Booster Club
Once you install something underground, you don’t have to think about it ever again, do you?
Such is not the case with the main supply running under the track. Installed in 2001, it worked well until this last year, when a joint seems to have slipped loose in the pipe directly beneath the track. We noticed the water bubbling up in the turf, and when we dug it up, we found the pipes had been shoved 3 inches by the “loose” pipe. Les Will and Jim Hartley fixed that, only to find the leak from the loose connection coming out the conduit pipe the delivery pipe is housed in. So Bob Shiner and Mike White joined us, and rammed the slipped out pipe back where it belongs, and fixed that in place. But a glued joint can’t just be forced into place - it has to be pulled out, re-primed, and re-glued to be tight under pressure.
And this is exactly what a football dad in the business has volunteered to do. Steve Medley and his crews do this kind of work every day; on the next spare day they have between now and April, they will be opening up two holes on either side of the track, and installing the most appropriate repair to the line that feeds the water to the 5 stadium stations.
Steve and his wife and business partner Kathy deserve our thanks and gratitude for pitching in. Not only will the work get done, it will be done right, and it will be done at little expense to our overtaxed budgets. It doesn’t get any better than this - what we need to do is make sure some business flows Steve’s way, as a way of thanking him. Check out his sign along the new north stadium fence, and tell your friends and businesses acquaintances in need of irrigation system work about them!
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