Park Maintenance

With the warmer weather and increased park use come a variety of maintenance tasks that Parks staff tackles each spring.  Here are some of the services we provide in the swpring that we get the most questions about and what you can expect from us:

Mowing
Information on mowing of parks and sports fields, and rough and roadside mowing.

Parking Lot Dust control
A magnesium chloride solution is applied to gravel parking lots in June each year to reduce dust.  This solution poses minimal health or environmental concerns anf fixes moisture from the air to the dust particles, reducing the amount that gets airborne.

Soccer Field Renovations
There are 19 grass soccer fields in Saanich supporting over 5,500 registered soccer players in 6 different home clubs.  Soccer plays from September to April each year, and our crews have three months to restore the grass to be ready for the following soccer season and to support other community uses.  We have an aggressive program to optimize topdressing, overseeding, fertilizer application, irrigation, aeration and a variety of other turf management techniques.  Often, this requires the closure of soccer fields while the new grass takes seed, and we appreciate the understanding of the Clubs and the community in respecting these closures, if required.