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Wednesday, July 20, 2016
RICHMOND COUNTY, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) — Catherine Simmons has been bringing her family to Lock and Dam Park for decades.
“We’ve come here a lot the dam is awesome to walk and talk to children about, nature, it’s just a neat place to come,” Simmons said.
Over the years she’s noticed some changes.
“This is an awesome park actually and I’m kinda sad to see that they’ve taken the playground down because my child came here when she was younger,” Simmons said.
That’s not all. The comfort stations aren’t too comfortable anymore. Consultants hired by the city to do a parks master plan ranked them in poor condition, including the waterfront pier. The picnic areas and shelters weren’t rated much higher.
“Families love to come here and picnic and stuff so I’m really sad to see that it’s declining,” Simmons said.
The Augusta Parks Department’s lease of the park from the Corps of Engineers is up at the end of 2018. So the city will soon be talking about some of the things they would like to do. That could include looking at more than one entrance and exit, which is keeping away big events right now.
“Tons of people use to come here, it was hard to get a place here. Now when I come down here or my child comes down here there’s hardly anybody here,” Simmons said.
The master plan calls for replacing the boardwalk and fishing deck, which is crumbling and bringing all the facilities into compliance with the American’s with Disabilities Act. For Catherine’s sake they are telling the city a new playground with swings should be added.
“There’s not a whole lot of area or things to do as a family in Augusta and we really need to invest in our parks so that families have a place to go,” Simmons said.
Augusta’s Parks Director says the master plan will come before the commission to adopt on Augusta 16th. The current lease for the park with the Corps of Engineers was for 10 years and they will look to extend that again.
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