Wyatt Underwood on "The Safe Child Campaign"

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I visited Cachuma Lake, California over the weekend camping with family and decided to take in some sights and walk off the camping food I had been eating all day. I came across a beautiful playground with a nicely designed shade structure that was incorporated in the unit. When I got a bit closer I noticed that the unit used two safety surfacing elements. One was the Poured-In-Place type to meet ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act) and the other was a Wood Mulch that apparently was to meet budget concerns. The play structure had synthetic Poured-In-Place surfacing around the unit to meet the need of Critical Fall Height (Head Injury Criteria) then sloped to blend into the Wood Mulch. The Wood Mulch continued the safety surface (Inexpensively) to create a surface that would meet the fall heights standards. In theory, this is a way to cut the budget and try to provide an adequate play surface for this very large play structure and maximize the play area. However, this is my view… I