Columbus Dispatch: Don't walk in the Goodale Park Pond!

Don't walk in the pond!

By: Mark Ferenchik

The Columbus Dispatch - June 05, 2012 05:17 PM

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Curious visitors to the Goodale Park pond are now walking in the pond as a mysterious leak continues to drain water, leaving some areas completely dry.

City officials worry that people traipsing through the pond near the Short North will create even more leaks on the bottom they'll have to find and plug.

Those walking through the pond could damage the bentonite clay that crews put down in April on the bottom in an attempt to fix the leak, said Terri Leist, assistant director of the Columbus Recreation and Parks Department. The city spent $144,600 for the bentonite and to repair the pond walls.

The Friends of Goodale Park hired a company to put concrete and a rubber liner around the base of the fountain at the pond in the hopes of finally plugging the leak. That work should start by late this week or early next week, Leist said.