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Message Page 1 of2 WEISS Carolyn J From: COREY Kurt A Sent: Thursday, April 06, 2006 1:10PM To: MEDLIN Johnny R; WEISS Carolyn J Subject: FW: Golden Gardens park -----Original Message----- From: TAYLOR Dennis M Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 8:56 AM To: COREY Kurt A; JONES Angel L; CARLSON Jim R Cc: MILLER Dawna A Subject: FW: Golden Gardens park FYI--DMT -----Original Message---n From: Deborah Craig [mailto:dcraig1280@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 28, 20067:56 PM To: *Eugene Mayor and City Council Subject: Golden Gardens park Attn City Council & Parks Planning: I'm glad 1 attended a Bethel Neighborhd Association mtg 3/16 where I was prepared to argue about "nanny society" mentality, but apparently 5 children have drowned in the past dozen years or so in (one particular, NE) Golden Garden pond. So something needs to be done, immediately, especially as the neighborhood there has grown so. More children will surely drown if nothing is done. But the reason I came to the mtg was to request some garbage containers be placed in the park, and request that a bridge be built across the Beltline drainage ditch so the entire 46 acres can be accessed without having to wade across a 15 ft ditch. 1 am grateful to hear a bridge will be built this summer (altho the Parks Planning & Develpmt web site sure doesn't mention it). But about the NE pond where all the kids have drowned. Better signage would help tremendously. The current" 16 ft depth" sign doesn't begin to tell how difficult it would be to escape a vertically sided pit filled with entangling water weeds. That apparently is the essence of the problem. Two crosses have been erected by the parents of the most recent victims. If five crosses were visible I should think that would give anyone pause from jumping in. Also a sign with a swimmer circled with a diagonal line thru the figure, right near the crosses. A few exclamation points on no-swimming sign. I'm glad 1 never threw sticks in there for my dog to fetch. The neighborhood mtg emphasized how schools should alert their students regarding how dangerous the ponds are, but unless the info is repeated every single year indefinitely this education would be short- lived. Better signage would better educate more people. Perhaps a solar-powered phone connected to 911, like on 1-5 freeway. I go to Golden Gardens park because it's a great dog park as well as nature walk. 1 would like to pick up garbage while I'm there. But there's nowhere to put it. And it's a long walk back to any carpark area if I were to fill a bag or two & drag it back. My most recent trip there I did see a lined garbage can (someone is paying attention?) but it was at the extreme north end of park, far from a public street (and (0 4/14/2006