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We will be adding content to this section of the website
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relates to the history of Mount Si High School.
New athletic heights for Mount Si
By Michael
Ko
Seattle Times staff reporter - 2005
SNOQUALMIE, WA — Mount Si High School has
always had its share of weather-related issues. Annually, about 61 inches of
rain drenches Snoqualmie, compared to about 36 inches in Seattle. The campus
is a couple hundred yards from the often-bloated Snoqualmie River.
In 1990, during the worst flood the area
has seen, water gushed through the river near the school at a rate of about
78,000 cubic feet per second — enough, as one flood engineer calculated, "to
fill a Kingdome-sized bucket in about 10 minutes."
The school's athletic fields and parking
lot were submerged for days.
All of which raised an interesting design
question in 2003, when the citizens of Snoqualmie approved a $53.5 million
school bond, about 20 percent earmarked for improvements to Mount Si's
athletic facilities: How do you build a modern high-school sports complex in
the middle of one of the state's wettest floodways?
This September, in time for the beginning
of the new school year, the Snoqualmie Valley community is scheduled to
unveil its very precise $14 million solution.
Four new fields. A track with the same
state-of-the-art rubber surface used in last summer's Olympics in Athens. A
covered 1,800-seat grandstand, and 600 additional seats for visitors. All
surrounding a commons area called Wildcat Square, named after the school's
mascot.
"What I see is the most unique athletic
complex in K-12 in the state," said Clint Marsh, a program manager for KJM &
Associates, the company hired by the Snoqualmie Valley School District to
manage the project.
"This is more of a community-college or a
junior-college level complex," Marsh said, "and we would have never been
able to do that except the floodway presented such design challenges."
The centerpiece of the project — the
football/soccer field — is taking shape with the recent completion of a
concrete platform 240 feet wide by 440 feet long, raised six feet off the
ground on dozens of rectangular pillars.
Hundreds of tiny holes have been drilled
into the sloped platform — six inches higher at the center compared to the
edges — to aid drainage.
A Styrofoam-like pad will be laid on top of
the platform, and then FieldTurf, an artificial-grass substance, will be
placed above that by the end of next month. An elevated tunnel will lead out
of the school, through the grandstand and onto the raised football field.
A natural rubber track made by the Mondo
company in Italy will be installed next to the football field, but at ground
level.
The official track surface of the summer
Olympics is unique because it's able to be vacuumed after rains and floods.
The track, which was not raised above ground in large part because of
financial costs, will have a grass infield.
The Mondo substance, despite being more
expensive than other surfaces, was chosen because of its proven durability.
The company even gave the school district a 10-year warranty against flood
damages, and the school district hopes to save money in the long-run by
avoiding costly maintenance.
"It was an expensive investment for a
school with public money," Marsh said, "and so we didn't want to put down
anything that we couldn't get a warranty on."
The old red cinder track held up so poorly
against the elements and was such a maintenance nightmare, said Chris
Jackson, Mount Si boys track and field coach, that the school hasn't hosted
a track meet in almost five years.
Other project features include:
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New baseball and softball diamonds with
built-in swales at the edges. When it's wet, they act as bowls that
direct the water off the fields;
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An auxiliary gym with 19,000 square
feet, also built on a raised foundation.
"In a small community like the Valley, you
don't have that many resources," said Jackson, who is also an assistant
football coach. "Our kids deserve better than what they've had, and it will
be nice for people to see their tax dollars at work in a real tangible way."
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