Columbus Dispatch: Goodale Park pond continues to leak

Goodale Park pond continues to leak

By: Mark Ferenchik

The Columbus Dispatch - April 23, 2012 14:04 PM

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The Goodale Park pond leaked through the weekend dropping more than two inches since Friday.

As of Sunday, the pond's water level was down 12 1/2 inches below the overflow line, according to Terri Leist, Columbus' assistant recreation and parks director. That means the water level has dropped nine inches since the city stopped filling the pond on April 13.

City officials are still trying to find the source of the leak, although some people suspect the fountain the Friends of Goodale Park installed last year.

The city spent $144,600 to put down a bentonite (clay) surface officials hoped would prevent the pond from draining as it did last year.