Memorial Park Lake and Spillway Getting Updated, Renovated

It's a big project for a little lake--backhoes, bulldozers, erosion fencing and signs telling people the sidewalk is closed. But every 15 years or so, you've got to dredge the catch basin for a lake before it silts up completely.

So that's what's happening to the lake at Memorial Park. The fore bay is being renovated, says John McKinney, facilities manager for the park. Workers are also replacing the culvert that linked the creek to the lake with an above-ground water spillway and are building a pedestrian bridge over it.

The waterfall will aerate the water, says McKinney, which will in turn make the lake less stagnant. It'll make aquatic life in the water a little happier as well.

Depending on the weather, the entire project should be finished by the end of the year.

, but the lake at Memorial Park is a speciaIt’s a four bay renovation project…if you’re walking around the lake. A catch basin for sediment. Have to be dredged every 15 years or so.

Dredging out the four bay and will link up to the lake

Tearing out the culvert out

Replacing it with an above ground waterway spillway with a bridge over it

Will handle the flow of water better

A water fall effect to help aerate the water

And will make the lake less stagnant

A little creek back behind the playground

Ann’s Court and Habersham Drive

The forebay was silted up

Trees were growing in the forebay

Had to get Army Corps permits

Transportations and public works department doing it

Will be done by the end of the year

John McKinney, facilities supervisor