In order to protect the turf underneath, a black geotextile fabric is laid down and glued together. "If we can get a really good thunderstorm in the afternoon or at night, that would be really helpful." "Keeping it wet is going to be a challenge with these temps," Casey Carrick, the Director of Athletic Grounds at UNC, said. Ahead of next Wednesday's game, the grass will be mowed, fertilized, watered and painted. The specific sod, Bermuda 419, takes four months to grow and is grown on plastic to ensure consistency on the playing surface.Ĭrews began laying sod early Wednesday morning and will be done by Thursday afternoon. About 30 trucks transported the 600 rolls of new grass to Chapel Hill.Īccording to the Environmental Protection Agency's gas equivalency calculator, the emissions from the fuel used by the trucks add up to about 14,300 pounds of coal burned, or the carbon sequestered by about 15 acres of forest every year. The project includes 88,000 square feet of sod installed on top of the existing artificial turf by a team of about 50 employees of Carolina Green, an athletic fields company that installed the artificial turf in Kenan in 2019.Ĭarolina Green is based in Indian Trail, N.C., near Charlotte, and the sod was harvested around 4 a.m. Kenan Stadium is temporarily getting a natural grass field for the first time since 2019 in preparation for a July 19 match between British soccer teams Chelsea and Wrexham.
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