New drainage at Hereford FC after postponements

TL;DR

Hereford FC has installed a new drainage system to address issues with a waterlogged pitch that led to multiple match postponements last season. Turf removal and reseeding are underway in preparation for the upcoming season.

Key points

New drainage system installed at Hereford FC
Pitch was waterlogged, causing match postponements
Turf removal and reseeding are in progress
Team avoided relegation in final game of the season

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Edgar Street

Hereford FCNational League North

A green football pitch with two stands in the background - one facing the pitch on the right on the photo and the other on the left is at an angle to the camera. Although the pitch is mainly green, there is a strip that is soil going from the bottom of the image in the middle up to nearly the top of the photo.

Work has started on removing the turf before the pitch is reseeded ahead of next season [BBC]

A new drainage system has been installed at Hereford FC, after it saw a series of postponements due to a waterlogged pitch last season.

New drains running the length of the Edgar Street pitch have been put in at the non-league ground, where the team avoided relegation from National League North in their final game of the campaign.

Work has begun on removing the turf before the pitch is reseeded ahead of next season.

The club's founding shareholders contributed towards the cost of the new drainage system, along with England and former Hereford United player Jarrod Bowen.

Hereford FC's general manager Jamie Griffiths said it was only when contractors started work that they realised why there had been so many problems.

Workers had "gone the opposite direction to the old drainage", he stated.

He added: "They've come across blocked drains, collapsed drains, drains that were below other drains, so it [the system] was expecting water to go uphill, which obviously water's not too fond of."