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loam (27%) which was upgraded to Boughton County loam during renovations.
The outfield has a primary drainage system, installed at three metre centres, to ensure the ground can drain at a rate of 13 litres per second, helping to reduce the number of games lost to rain. Existing soil was ameliorated with 50mm of sand to improve the surface drainage capabilities of the outfield. As with any new builds, there have been a few teething problems, with a majority of the cut and fill work undertaken using existing soils which produced some settlement problems in parts of the outfield. Paul has instigated some localised repairs and seeding to re-establish levels and sward composition.
Whilst it is still early days - the square is barely 15 months old and still growing in - more root growth is needed to reduce a few plating
problems, but these are not causing huge concern. Paul is monitoring the situation, and is confident it will improve in time as root growth strengthens. The worse case scenario would be to introduce more loam into the cracks, and monitor moisture levels to prevent the loam from cracking.
Having come through a tough winter, Paul decided he needed to rectify some poor levels and improve sward density, so he undertook a light renovation programme in March, carrying out some scarification, adding 3-4 bags of loam per track and overseeding with R9. This appeared to do the trick.
Pre season rolling was curtailed a bit this spring, due to the poor weather. However, he must be doing something right, as the County side will be playing two, four day, first team fixtures next year, whilst the square at Old Trafford is turned
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