“Although scenic to look at, (the ponds) have unsafe banks and edges that are collapsing and stagnant water,” staff said in a report, noting the lawns “have been trampled by both geese and humans along the entire shoreline.”
The ponds of Burnaby’s Central Park are “unsafe,” “degraded,” “collapsing” and “polluted,” according to a new city staff report.In response, on April 3, city council approved a staff recommendation to create a master plan of Central Park as a whole, including its ponds and recreation facilities, before deciding what to do — and how much to spend — to fix the ponds.
The banks are “degraded and eroded” and harbour invasive plants; the lawns that used to extend beyond the edge of the pond “have been trampled by both geese and humans along the entire shoreline.” The ponds use 100,915 cubic metres of treated municipal water per year — enough to fill Central Park Pool 69 times a year or once every five days, according to the report.
'Complete rebuild' “Dealing with the water loss really means excavating and rebuilding the ponds from the ground up, so it’s not just one leaky pipe we have, we have the entire base and bottom of the ponds leaking,” the city’s senior manager of park planning Heather Edwards told council.Staff say a new water recirculation system and lined pond bases could reduce water loss by 88 per cent.
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