Photo Feature: Public Works field maintenance

Field Days

Photos by Dan Dernosek

From spring to fall each year, the South Fayette Township Public Works Department maintains and repairs athletic fields in Fairview, Morgan, Boys Home, Preservation and Sturgeon parks.

Among other tasks, crews paint lines; mow, aerate and fertilize grass; repair turf; groom infields; complete drainage repairs; and maintain field amenities such as lights and bleachers. This year, they added lights to a ball field in Fairview.

—Andrea Iglar

Lifted 60 feet up, Mark Mitchell and Joe Bastaroli change bulbs in the ball field lights at Morgan Park.

Trent Delaney uses a plate tamper to compact infill mix on an infield at Morgan Park.

Joe Bastaroli paints lines for football in Fairview Park.

Mark Mitchell and Alan Desmet run an electrical conduit to Fairview Field B, where light poles were installed this summer.

At Preservation Park, Dale Kirkpatrick drives a tractor pulling an aerator, which punctures the soil surface to allow grass roots to receive oxygen, water and nutrients.