CMS: Goose Problem Solved At High School Football Stadium

More than 100 pesky geese have been removed from Garinger High School’s football stadium.

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools had to move last Friday’s game because of the geese and the hundreds of droppings they left behind. School officials didn’t want to have the football field cleaned up until they were sure the geese wouldn’t return.

A local goose expert teamed up with CMS to get rid of the birds. Workers used green lasers to scare the birds away, and then tied helium balloons to stakes on the field. The balloons stopped the geese from landing on the field, and after just a few days they moved on to other locations.

CMS was granted an exemption from the watering restrictions so groundskeepers could aerate the field and water it twice a day in order to get rid of the goose droppings.

Officials said the field will be ready for Garinger to take on Hopewell there on September 28.

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