A new retention pond is in the final stages of construction in between the tennis courts and the new football field.

On the first day of summer, Maneval Construction Inc. and International Sport Surfaces Inc. began working together on this retention pond that is needed to drain rainwater from the new football field.

“As a result of us redoing the stadium turf this summer, we had to put proper drainage in,” Ryan Rubenstein, assistant principal for student activities and facilities said. “When you put proper drainage in, you also have to have a place to filter the water to.”

Before the retention pond was in progress, nobody knew where the rainwater drained to.

“I want to say about ten or eleven years ago, when [constructionists] did the turf in the stadium, they did not put the proper drainage in, which is why there is a little bit of a crown to the field and that’s why there were grates around the field because [the water] was draining into there,” Rubenstein said.

The construction of the retention pond will not affect sports, but may mildly limit the places outside for P.E. classes, according to Rubenstein.

The retention pond is the start of many new changes made to and around the school.

“The projects that we’re doing are all being done sequentially in an order that we feel is best both financially and for the district,” Rubenstein said. “We have a plan in mind and it’s on paper, it’s just the execution of that plan just takes time and money.”