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Does new football field pose safety risk?

Washougal teacher, district disagree over source of sharp debris found on Jemtegaard Middle School field funded by $57 million construction bond

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Washougal School District facilities manager Joe Steinbrenner shows a soils analysis document. It shows that the district imported 18 inches of engineered topsoil to install at the new football field at Jemtegaard Middle School in Washougal. Steinbrenner says debris found on the new field is from this topsoil, not from the demolished middle school, which lies underneath the field's eastern edges. (Photos by Wayne Havrelly/Post-Record)

A Washougal middle school teacher and former football coach is worried that a new Washougal youth football field, constructed near the newly opened Jemtegaard Middle School (JMS) and part of a $57 million Washougal School District (WSD) capital improvements bond passed by voters in 2016, may pose a serious safety hazard.

Brett Cox, an eighth grade science teacher at JMS, said he grew concerned about the field after spotting something odd on a bright, sunny day.

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