DROUGHT WATCH FOR LAKE SOMERVILLE LIFTED
CITY OF BRENHAM SPLASH PAD RETURNS TO NORMAL HOURS
The Brazos River Authority (BRA) has terminated its Stage 1 Drought Watch for Lake Somerville.
In a letter last week to the City of Brenham and other entities that receive water from the lake, the BRA said that recent rain events have resulted in “significant improvements to drought conditions.”
The BRA said now that the lake is full, it anticipates that drought conditions “will not return for an extended period.”
The lake had been under a Stage 1 Drought Watch since March 15th, following drier-than-normal conditions in the lower Brazos River Basin.
As a result of the drought watch being lifted, the City of Brenham will resume normal operating hours at the Henderson Park splash pad, effective immediately. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Why was the pad not built to recycle the water and run it thru the a uv light amd killed anything and wouldn’t have to worry about the drought amd water cost all the time amd let the water go down the creek
Think about it
Poor Management at the Top. Ask the City how much water is wasted a day on the splash pad. It should have been thought out better.
I don’t know the exact figure but it was 3 or 4 times the cost to build it that way.
Yes initial cost would have been more but the long term costs would have equaled out if not made it must more efficient. But yes. Let continue to focus on the short term rather than a long term gain.
Pee….
THANK YOU! YOU should be on the water board making intelligent decisions! My Gosh every time I read about these unthinkable, unthought out decisions I feel their determined to ruin Brenham. We didn’t need the splash pad to begin with! We have the Blue Bell pool. Plus the pool we had by the library was perfect but they decided to fill it in. We could have had both. ..Splash pad was unnecessary period.
While the old pool was deemed unfit and the projected cost to update everything was too much, all it did was to remove that swimming option from all of the young people on the north side of town, from West Martin Luther King and the neighborhoods off of Higgins branch. The city is likely trying to offset that racial Injustice by upgrading Henderson Park with the new splash pad and other such things; however, statistics show that most African-American teenagers are not offered swimming instruction, and I’m sure that none walk or ride their bike out to the Aquatic Center all the way across town.