Quincy track at Faxon Field suffering from trashed turf

– News about Quincy MA from Quincy Quarry News.

Trashed turf at Faxon track
A Quincy Quarry News photo

Quincy’s expensive and somewhat new track and field at Faxon Field is already suffering from trashed turf.

In less than two and half years since the dedication of the now not exactly new track at Faxon Field, the turf infield of this estimated two million dollar track facility – all costs included – is  already all but barren of grass.

Even per the well-known shortcomings of the deservedly embattled Koch Maladministration, this rapid decay of expensive new municipal infrastructure is beyond merely breathtaking. 

A fairly regular Park and Forestry Department field meeting
Quincy Quarry News file photo

The damage is not the result of lingering impacts of the barely-record-setting snowfall during the now thankfully passed Winter of 2015, but rather primarily from apparently allowing the use of the turf infield for intense practice activities by Quincy High Schools interscholastic teams a full growing season sooner than the original plan to allow the turf to only properly fully develop before it was subjected to heavy use

In fact, the turf was all but trashed last spring as well as then poorly cared for by City of Quincy Park and Forestry Department personnel.

With North Quincy High School currently enjoying a fully renovated recently turf infield at Cavanaugh Stadium, use of an also recently fully renovated grass sports field – O’Neil Field – at Atlantic Middle School and a pending new multi-million dollar second stadium adjacent to the campus featuring artificial turf, one can only assume that rabid Quincy High School athletics booster club members will be clamoring for parity.

“Goose Grease” galore on Quincy High’s new front lawn
A Quincy Quarry News file photo

In the meanwhile, Park and Forestry Department appears to have had the infield at the track at Faxon Field raked and then spread with grass seed.
So far, however, the only clear benefits from these meager efforts are that local geese are enjoying dining on the seed and then leaving behind their guano to perhaps fertilize what little turf remains in the infield of the Faxon Field track.

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