First, there are plans to move the stadium long term, but you have to find property, they’re looking and talking. This would allow a place to play until a permanent home is found. (Article is in the Mountaineer)
2nd, they were pressure washing and cleaning the field yesterday. Replacing pellets is a couple of day job, nothing major. The turf field itself simply didn’t sustain the kind of damage that 2021 brought. Concerts and events use temporary fencing all the time., that isn’t major.
3rd they will have an engineering firm look at the stadium seating the same as they would all the bridges that have been affected by the flood.
4th If power is a major issue and got above where the electrical enclosures and junction boxes were mounted. They make generators, big ones, Caterpillar, Sunbelt, and United Rentals, rent them all the time. We have electricians that know how to splice into pole lighting, concessions, etc and do this safely. It isn’t complicated, even if we have to go that route.
Pollutants, there is literally no industry above the field. You are talking septic and whatever random pollutants happen to have occurred from cars entering the river, maybe a trout farm(s) that were breached or compromised. I’m not an environmental scientist but I’m sure this stretch of water would have deposited a very small amount onto a turf field PPM-wise. Just my guess. This isn’t the same as what the town of Marshall is enduring from companies like Silverline Plastics and many others having their chemicals lost to the flood and the stadium isn’t downstream of a major breach of municipal wastewater treatment or solids treatment plant.
Just my thoughts on the issues, assuming the homeside stands are approved as safe.
