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2017 SUMMER CONFERENCE INFORMATION
2016 Soccer Field of the Year - Municipal City of Grapevine • Oak Grove Soccer Complex
Our Oak Grove Soccer Athletic Complex is a high quality sports area in a landmark civic park taking advantage of unique settings on the shores of Lake Grapevine in North Central Texas. Oak Grove Soccer fields were built in 1978 and more fields have been added to the complex through-out the years to its’ current configuration of 7 fields. During Normal Years: We host 2 tournaments a year 1 being sponsored by our local youth association over a Friday night thru Sunday night and 1 being sponsored by an outside provider lasting 3 days. We also have an outside select league that play on our fields as well as two different adult leagues. Oak Grove Soccer fields have an automatic irrigation system. It operates off of a Flowtronics VFD 1,100 gpm pump station that utilizes untreated lake water (Grapevine Lake) for its water source. We have an Irrinet control system central con-troller and Hunter I-20 sprinkler heads. Of the 7 fields in the complex 4 are lit. These fields are used 4 nights a week for practices and are used on weekends from 9am-10pm. These fields are normally used approximately 36 hrs a week on average from February-June and August-mid December. Not Normal Last 18 Months: Round 1 Starting on May 15, 2015 my 2 closest fields to Lake Grapevine started going under water and stayed under water (inches deep and up to 14-16 ft. deep) thru August 20. That’s 96 days total for that round. These fields were out of the water for 98 days. However !
From this point we verticutt and swept the fields multiple times as well as core aerated several times, each being about a week apart. We top-dressed each field with app. 25 tons of sand when we core aerated. We have not replanted/re-grassed any areas of the fields. We did do hand topdressing in areas where fish were clearing out spawning areas. There were also areas messed up from wave action on the surfaces. We do have some weeds we will be addressing at the end of August. Our plan is to open these fields for play September 17th, 2016. We are not going to over-seed these fields for winter play so we won’t have to worry about spring transition issues next year. My team takes a lot of pride in taking care of all the athletic fields in Grapevine. The City is constantly being asked by outside tournament providers to host soccer, softball or baseball events.
July
Agronomic Calendar
7-14 Fert. 46-0-0 @ 1 lb. N/1000 sq.ft. 7-21 Same as above 7-28 Same as above
August
8-4 Fert. 28-3-10 3% FE & 50% SCU 8-18 Fert. 46-0-0 @ 1/2 lb. N/1000 sq. ft. 8-26 Spray with Primo & Iron
Round 2 Starting on November 28, 2015 same fields went back underwater thru February 29, 2016. That’s 90 days total for that round. However it’s not over yet! Round 3 From March 1, 2016 the fields were still in and out of varying depths of water (2-8 inches) until around July 1st when the water and rains finally stopped. That’s approximately 100 ish days for this round. We finally think we are done! Grand Total of almost 300 days out of a possible 400 days in and out water for the 3 events. Start of the event May 15, 2015 – July 1, 2016 ending
Pictures of Fields Aug. 29, 2016 Opening Day was Sept. 17, 2016