Baseball field glass problem temporarily fixed

May 05, 2010

Volunteers have come to the aid of the City of Belen to help the city remove glass from the Eagle Park baseball fields.

Over the weekend, volunteers coordinated by Magistrate Judge Danny Hawkes, cleaned the fields. The group has committed to cleaning the fields regularly.

The volunteers swung into action knowing that the city’s Parks Department, which oversees the baseball fields, has only one employee after the reduction in force two weeks ago.

Councilor Jerah R. Cordova discovered the glass during a visit to the baseball fields.

The site of the fields was at one time a glass dump. When the fields were constructed, the soil wasn’t properly excavated to remove the glass, which has resulted in some of the glass remaining in the soil. It has since been rising to the surface.

With the help of volunteers, the city is conducting regular maintenance of the fields to ensure their safety.

The city also continues to be concerned with gopher burrows affecting the outfields.

Regular maintenance will address that problem, while the city continues to seek a more permanent solution.

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