“I read the studies that New Jersey had and I think that everyone is overacting to their studies,” Facilities Manager Chris Everone said. “We feel that it’s safe. And we wouldn’t allow the kids to be out there if we didn’t think it was safe.”

Lead is bound with chromium and nylon to create the field’s color. Two of the fields with the same type of turf in New Jersey were closed last month over concern athletes would inhale the toxic fibers or dust while playing on it.

West Haven’s Health Director Eric Triffin says not to give up your tickets to the Blue Devils next game. “How we would get uptake of this lead in the grass enough to hurt anyone seems unlikely,” Triffin said. “Because it is attached to the chromate and encapsulated in nylon.”

“We just don’t feel there’s enough information out there to make that decision that we need to pull kids from this field,” Jon Capone, the Athletics Director in West Haven, said.

Source: WTNH