If a pond is too risky, so is a creek

A pond in Stubbs Park is out of the question. The people have spoken, at least 40 or so at a recent meeting, and the City Council has caved. 

There’s goes our chances to make our own, albeit smaller, version of Central Park or Piedmont Park. Attention has now turned to the old gym there, whether or not to save it or get rid of it in favor of another amenity. 

To be fair, the small crowd of residents who gathered to share their thoughts on the gym are in favor of keeping it, as majority of the people surveyed during the city’s planning process. A lot of folks wanted a water feature, too, right? But you can’t make everybody happy.  

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Both versions of the proposed pond, a large body of water replacing the gym and a smaller one that would be next to a renovated gym, were deemed too hazardous to the area’s residents as well as too big of a liability for the city. Now thought is being put into unearthing the creek  that runs through the park, that was buried in times past. Part of the creek bed/drainage ditch currently cuts the field adjacent to the gym and playground. 

The dropoff to the little stream is at least three feet is some places. That’s a steep fall for anyone. Two inches of water can be dangerous to children, and it is worth noting that drownings have been recorded in water as shallow as 1.2 inches. The creeks maintains at least that much water, more during a wet spell. 

The city has one chance to do Stubbs Park right. So do it, if not, fence it in and close it. If a pond is too dangerous for the residents of Dublin, so is a creek.