$600K Turf Project Closing Sasso Field For Summer

The Fair Lawn Board of Education recently approved a pair of contracts for improvements to the high school's football field.

The board awarded contracts for $360,000 to Field Turf for artificial turf and $248,000 to Dakota Excavating for other work associated with the project.

The work is expected to start as soon as June 28 and last through September 16. During that time, the school's field and track will be closed.

The new field's artificial turf will make it available to more students because it can handle more use than natural grass, school officials previously told Patch.

“If you look at Bergen County, a majority of the high schools already have synthetic turf,” Superintendent Bruce Watson previously said. “And the reason why is that all students have an opportunity to utilize it.”

Artificial turf has been on the district's agenda for more than a decade, having first come to Fair Lawn voters in 2002. Referendums for the project were defeated that year and again in 2004, so officials decided to wait until they had completed other facilities upgrades before undergoing the project.

Officials said they expect the field surface to last 12 years.

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