Flood damaged park to be rebuilt this fall
PLYMOUTH – A popular park pavilion destroyed by flooding in 2006 should be re-built by the end of October, a Plymouth town official said last week.
The pavilion at Foster Park, located on state Rte. 23 just west of the Norwich town line, was washed away last June when high waters breached the bank of the nearby Canasawacta Creek. The flood also damaged much of the park’s landscape, and it has been closed since.
In August, the Town of Plymouth accepted a bid from Wilcox Construction of North Norwich to re-build the structure this fall at a cost of $42,670. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be covering the majority of the expense, Town Councilman Richard Thompson said.
With little change appearance and size wise, the new pavilion will be located a few hundred feet further away from its original spot near the creek.
“We’ve changed the location,” said Thompson. “It’s being moved where it’s situated out of harm’s way – tucked back up in the corner (by Rte. 23).”
FEMA paid for much of the landscaping work that was done to repair the park’s field as well, he added.
Plymouth resident Rena Doing is happy to see the park being re-opened.
“A lot of people enjoy it, and have enjoyed it there,” she said. “To have it just sitting there would have been sad.”
Doing explained that the park was created in the early 1980s after Plymouth resident Al Foster donated the land to the town for that purpose. She said other residents, like Alfonso Papio, Shirley Foster and the late Warren Leibundgut, were instrumental in making it a popular destination.
Thompson acknowledged the park’s popularity was a major reason the town decided to start over on the that site, despite flood woes.
“It’s an active park,” he said. “There were people there every weekend.”
Thompson also said to re-build somewhere else would take another property off an already weakened tax roll and waste a piece of property that was donated to be used extensively. He added that the town is now required to have flood insurance on Foster’s, and he expects it to be within the flood plane when the maps are redrawn in the near future.
Thompson, however, doesn’t expect to see any more water-related disasters like the area experienced in 2005 and 2006.
“These floods are flukes,” he said.
The pavilion at Foster Park, located on state Rte. 23 just west of the Norwich town line, was washed away last June when high waters breached the bank of the nearby Canasawacta Creek. The flood also damaged much of the park’s landscape, and it has been closed since.
In August, the Town of Plymouth accepted a bid from Wilcox Construction of North Norwich to re-build the structure this fall at a cost of $42,670. The Federal Emergency Management Agency will be covering the majority of the expense, Town Councilman Richard Thompson said.
With little change appearance and size wise, the new pavilion will be located a few hundred feet further away from its original spot near the creek.
“We’ve changed the location,” said Thompson. “It’s being moved where it’s situated out of harm’s way – tucked back up in the corner (by Rte. 23).”
FEMA paid for much of the landscaping work that was done to repair the park’s field as well, he added.
Plymouth resident Rena Doing is happy to see the park being re-opened.
“A lot of people enjoy it, and have enjoyed it there,” she said. “To have it just sitting there would have been sad.”
Doing explained that the park was created in the early 1980s after Plymouth resident Al Foster donated the land to the town for that purpose. She said other residents, like Alfonso Papio, Shirley Foster and the late Warren Leibundgut, were instrumental in making it a popular destination.
Thompson acknowledged the park’s popularity was a major reason the town decided to start over on the that site, despite flood woes.
“It’s an active park,” he said. “There were people there every weekend.”
Thompson also said to re-build somewhere else would take another property off an already weakened tax roll and waste a piece of property that was donated to be used extensively. He added that the town is now required to have flood insurance on Foster’s, and he expects it to be within the flood plane when the maps are redrawn in the near future.
Thompson, however, doesn’t expect to see any more water-related disasters like the area experienced in 2005 and 2006.
“These floods are flukes,” he said.
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