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Funds for East Sacramento’s McKinley Pond Found!
A hopeful message from Council member Steve Cohn!! Funds are available for McKinley Pond rehabilitation. Read the Council member’s letter below.
“I have great news about McKinley Pond! As you know, in June 2013, a Lake Management and Assessment Report was completed identifying several issues with our city’s ponds including the McKinley pond. Since that time I have been working with Parks staff on cost estimates as well as funding sources.
I am happy to report that we have identified $225,000 in Park Impact Fees and Quimby funds to clean and repair the pond, install perimeter fencing, and plant vegetation around the pond’s edges. The funding will be brought to Council with the FY14/15 budget for approval. Once approved in June, Parks staff will work with the community on the project scope and design. I am hopeful that construction will be completed in late 2014 or early 2015.
I greatly appreciate the numerous hours of volunteer work that have been committed by Judy McClaver and others and I look forward to a continued partnership as we move forward with the pond renovation.”
Steve Cohn
Councilmember, District 3
There will still be a City Parks & Recreation Commission meeting. ESP will attend to thank the commission.
Thursday
February 6, 2014
7pm
Old City Hall
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East Sacrmento McKinley Park Pond Fails Health Test–Come to City’s Meeting to Help Pond
McKinley Park Pond is in crisis. Join other East Sacramento Preservation members at the City Parks & Recreation Commission meeting:Thursday
February 6, 2014
7pm
City Hall
We want to get immediate action on the public health issues at the pond. The City had the pond water tested in June and it was deemed a Human Health Hazard. McKinley was the only pond in Sacramento (of the four tested–North Laguna, William Land, SouthsIde) that tested as dangerous or close to dangerous to humans.
The water was tested for coliform bacteria only. There was no testing for giardia, camphylobacter or hepatitis. The Coliform bacteria level was 8 times what is acceptable and 4 times above an action level.
Children play in this water and sometimes fall in, fish caught are taken home to contaminate surfaces. Dogs drink the water and fetch their balls from it. ESP’s Judy McClaver has been trying to get Parks management and Councilman Cohn to do something to prevent people from contacting the pond water since she received this report. No funding or action has come from the city.
Enforcement of the no feeding human food to the water fowl, which would decrease the amount of excrement, is not being enforced. Funding (Capital Improvement Funds and Measure U) has been diverted to other aesthetic and entertainment projects. McClaver has been cleaning up the pond of debris, which has included dirty diapers and syringes. She proposes that the current fence be extended around the pond, similar to Southside Pond.
“Domestic waterfowl have been removed. Only wild ones remain. There is no way with the number of ducks that reside in the pond, the large number of geese that migrate through, and the number of turtles residing and breeding, that this pond can ever be cleaned up to a safe level. It needs the protection of a fence,” said McClaver.
Please show the Commission that this is important to the neighborhood and come to the meeting. It will be the first item. Parking is not an issue after 6pm.
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