Have you ever considered installing artificial grass?

[Veritas]

Contributing to Global Warming
Why would we contribute to global warming by removing life that removes carbon dioxide from our atmosphere?

According the non-profit group Athena Institute, the replacement of one grass field would require the planting of 1,861 trees, and allowing them to grow for 10 years, to offset the amount of “carbon dioxide sequestration” lost with the grass fields.

David Brown, a public health toxicologist, wrote a column for the Sunday New York Times explaining some of the dangers of creating playing fields out of petroleum products.

He said each square foot of synthetic surface has 10 or so pounds of tire crumbs, which results in about 225 tons of ground-up tires for a field 300 feet long by 150 feet wide. Silver Terrace is at least twice that size.

“(Studies) found that dust from the rubber crumbs contained carcinogens that could be inhaled into the deepest portions of the lung,” Brown wrote.

As well, the water that drains off the synthetic fields is channeled into the city’s sewer system, which means it is treated and discharged into the Pacific Ocean. It does not go back into the underground aquifer. (Wasn’t that the problem with Lake Merced?)

Our sewer system can’t handle all of the water during a heavy rain and sometimes untreated effluent is dumped directly into the ocean. This will make that problem worse.

The SF Board of Supervisors passed legislation in 2002 to ban the paving over of small green spaces in the front of people’s homes in an effort to keep water flowing into the underground aquifers and out of the city’s storm drainage system. Recently, it passed legislation calling for fines of up to $500 for violators.

But the City is the biggest violator of its own policy. Surprise.

http://www.sunsetbeacon.com/archives/SunsetBeacon/2008Editions/April08/Paulcol.html

[CA renter]

Agree very much with Veritas’ post.

Perhaps you could go somewhere like Quail Botanical Gardens, and ask them what they would suggest. They have some beautiful gardens with native and/or drought-resistant plants and trees that help clean the environment and are healthier for you and your family. You can copy some of their ideas and incorporate them with ideas of your own. You do not need to cover the yard with grass (real or fake) in order to have a beautiful yard.

http://www.qbgardens.org/

[CA renter]

Agree very much with Veritas’ post.

Perhaps you could go somewhere like Quail Botanical Gardens, and ask them what they would suggest. They have some beautiful gardens with native and/or drought-resistant plants and trees that help clean the environment and are healthier for you and your family. You can copy some of their ideas and incorporate them with ideas of your own. You do not need to cover the yard with grass (real or fake) in order to have a beautiful yard.

http://www.qbgardens.org/

[CA renter]

Agree very much with Veritas’ post.

Perhaps you could go somewhere like Quail Botanical Gardens, and ask them what they would suggest. They have some beautiful gardens with native and/or drought-resistant plants and trees that help clean the environment and are healthier for you and your family. You can copy some of their ideas and incorporate them with ideas of your own. You do not need to cover the yard with grass (real or fake) in order to have a beautiful yard.

http://www.qbgardens.org/

[CA renter]

Agree very much with Veritas’ post.

Perhaps you could go somewhere like Quail Botanical Gardens, and ask them what they would suggest. They have some beautiful gardens with native and/or drought-resistant plants and trees that help clean the environment and are healthier for you and your family. You can copy some of their ideas and incorporate them with ideas of your own. You do not need to cover the yard with grass (real or fake) in order to have a beautiful yard.

http://www.qbgardens.org/

[CA renter]

Agree very much with Veritas’ post.

Perhaps you could go somewhere like Quail Botanical Gardens, and ask them what they would suggest. They have some beautiful gardens with native and/or drought-resistant plants and trees that help clean the environment and are healthier for you and your family. You can copy some of their ideas and incorporate them with ideas of your own. You do not need to cover the yard with grass (real or fake) in order to have a beautiful yard.

http://www.qbgardens.org/

[Oxford]

Thanks for the input folks. Ya’ll rock. I like the ideas. Might hit Quail tomorrow.

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[Oxford]

Thanks for the input folks. Ya’ll rock. I like the ideas. Might hit Quail tomorrow.

ox
…closing in on closing

[Oxford]

Thanks for the input folks. Ya’ll rock. I like the ideas. Might hit Quail tomorrow.

ox
…closing in on closing

[Oxford]

Thanks for the input folks. Ya’ll rock. I like the ideas. Might hit Quail tomorrow.

ox
…closing in on closing

[Oxford]

Thanks for the input folks. Ya’ll rock. I like the ideas. Might hit Quail tomorrow.

ox
…closing in on closing

[UCGal]

the current synthetic grasses “perc”. The water DOES drain into the ground underneath – hence recharging the aquafer. It is not the same as an impermiable concrete which forces the water into the storm water system. Rain will soak into the ground similar to if it were real grass. If it’s a hard clay surface underneath the synthetic grass then it won’t drain… but it wouldn’t drain if it were real grass over hard clay.

Lawns in San Diego make no sense… they make sense in places with lots of rain like Pennsylvania, Western Washington, etc… but here you cannot maintain a lawn without irrigation. It’s a hold back to the old english estates where you had rolling hills and sheep to keep them cropped.

[UCGal]

the current synthetic grasses “perc”. The water DOES drain into the ground underneath – hence recharging the aquafer. It is not the same as an impermiable concrete which forces the water into the storm water system. Rain will soak into the ground similar to if it were real grass. If it’s a hard clay surface underneath the synthetic grass then it won’t drain… but it wouldn’t drain if it were real grass over hard clay.

Lawns in San Diego make no sense… they make sense in places with lots of rain like Pennsylvania, Western Washington, etc… but here you cannot maintain a lawn without irrigation. It’s a hold back to the old english estates where you had rolling hills and sheep to keep them cropped.

[UCGal]

the current synthetic grasses “perc”. The water DOES drain into the ground underneath – hence recharging the aquafer. It is not the same as an impermiable concrete which forces the water into the storm water system. Rain will soak into the ground similar to if it were real grass. If it’s a hard clay surface underneath the synthetic grass then it won’t drain… but it wouldn’t drain if it were real grass over hard clay.

Lawns in San Diego make no sense… they make sense in places with lots of rain like Pennsylvania, Western Washington, etc… but here you cannot maintain a lawn without irrigation. It’s a hold back to the old english estates where you had rolling hills and sheep to keep them cropped.

[UCGal]

the current synthetic grasses “perc”. The water DOES drain into the ground underneath – hence recharging the aquafer. It is not the same as an impermiable concrete which forces the water into the storm water system. Rain will soak into the ground similar to if it were real grass. If it’s a hard clay surface underneath the synthetic grass then it won’t drain… but it wouldn’t drain if it were real grass over hard clay.

Lawns in San Diego make no sense… they make sense in places with lots of rain like Pennsylvania, Western Washington, etc… but here you cannot maintain a lawn without irrigation. It’s a hold back to the old english estates where you had rolling hills and sheep to keep them cropped.

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