Wallingford Takes Proactive Pitch Action

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Wednesday, 04 April 2012

With the unusually dry winter behind us, the Wallingford Festival team are not trusting to the elements alone to ensure a safe playing surface for the Festival.

At the end of February, Wallingford RFC invested over £4000 in additional intensive Festival ground preparation work on the Jubilee pitches. This included reseeding, airation and fertilising.  All training on the floodlit training pitch was also suspended from the end of January to ensure that the pitch was not over played prior to the Festival.

Whilst the hose pipe ban comes into force this week, as a public facility, the grounds at Wallingford Sports Park can still legally be watered. A commercial irrigation company has been contracted in the weeks running up to the Festival to carry out 24/7 watering of the pitches to ensure that they are safe to play on.