“Send it back. Send it back,” residents chanted at Wednesday’s Montclair Board of Education meeting. The “it” they referred to is the artificial turf field currently in temporary storage at Woodman Field. The turf is slated for eventual installation as part of the Woodman Field project.
Multiple residents questioned Superintendent Jonathan Ponds and the Montclair Board of Education about the new turf field, which parents claim contains polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) also known as forever chemicals.
On May 3, at the request of Montclair residents, Kyla Bennett, science policy director for Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) emailed Ponds and board members. Bennett stated that the 2017 test results “was designed not to find PFAS.”