ELLAND ROAD 'BEACH'. Elland Road, Leeds Yorkshire England
ELLAND ROAD 'BEACH'.
Published: 19th June 2010
It might look more like a beach than a football pitch but this was Elland Road at the beginning of the week as work began on a £100,000 scheme to improve the quality of the playing area and also the pitches at the Thorp Arch training complex.
The surface of the pitch was shaved off by a specially designed machine which took about six hours. Then, with the aid of another machine, work began on breaking up the compaction of the soil beneath the surface and root-zone down to a level of eight inches.
Seawood granules and ground limestone were added to the soil during the cultivation procedure before the surface was eventually levelled up again. Today the whole area was re-seeded and the grass should have grown fully by a week this Friday.
Similar work has been carried out at the Thorp Arch training complex.
The result of the improvements will mean the Elland Road pitch will be a much truer playing surface than it was.
