By Mark Ferenchik
It’s been two weeks since the Goodale Park fountain was turned on.
The water continues to spout. The pond in which it sits is holding water.
All is well. (For now, anyway.)
“Everybody’s pretty happy about it,” said Jason Kentner, the president of the Friends of Goodale Park.
Not to mention relieved.
The water to the fountain was turned on back on Sept. 14. That was a little more than two months after the pond was refilled.
Kentner’s group spent $8,500 to install a rubberized lining around the base of the fountain in June to fix a leak that had drained the pond since last fall.
That came after the city spent $144,600 to line the bottom of the pond in April with a clay called bentonite to plug the leak. That fix didn’t work.
Kentner said the city also installed a new ground water pump to recharge the pond during dry weather.
Why didn't you mention that the fountain was poorly wired so that it can only operate one of the following at a time: the water pump or the lights that illuminate the fountain. Not both at once. So, at night, you will see it lit but the fountain is off. Oh, and the water flowing out of the top is no longer level, meaning water no longer flows down evenly down all sides. Some areas are wet, others completely dry.
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