receive a geotechnical study in lieu of a
plan to install turf fields.
The Village of Mineola approved a $21,000 geotechnical engineering study of two Wilson Park athletic fields last week to analyze soil composition in lieu of installing turf fields at the site. Manhattan-based Mueser Rutledge Consulting Engineers will conduct the study.
Before the park was built, it served as a sewer lift station but was overhauled into green space for Mineola.
“This is some of the preliminary work that we need to do to look to advance a turf field project on those two fields,” Public Works Superintendent Tom Rini said. “Because of the type of soils and the history of the property, we need to do [a study] so ground settlement issues can support the drainage layers and everything required to build the turf field.”
Mueser reps will work with Mineola civil engineers to implement a turf field plan should the study yield favorable results, Rini said. If the survey reveals adverse conditions for a turf field, the plan would be scrapped.
The environmental study will be financed from development incentive bonus funds. These monies allocated for public amenities from downtown development projects such as the rising apartment complexes on Old Country Road in Mineola.
“This is one of the projects we’d like to get moving with [those funds],” Mayor Scott Strauss said. “I’m very much excited.”
