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The company put down more than 2,400 square yards of the turf.

Recent surveys in the area tallied 35 grasshoppers per square yard, or more than quadruple the eight per yard considered an outbreak and a threat to rangeland ecosystems, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported.

Nonreflective glass was costly, he said: Work on a painting of moderate size — a square yard, say — could come in at around $1,000.

About 617 square yards of turf, and up to six cubic yards of crumb rubber — each piece the size of a large coffee ground — were initially released downstream, according to the state Department of Ecology.

But in invisible hot spots, some covering an acre or two, some just a few square yards, radiation can soar to thousands of times normal ambient levels.