Category Archives: INC PARC Committee
INC PARC Minutes Feb 16, 2016
NC PARC met Feb. 16 2016 at 6 p.m. at Brookdale, 2020 S. Monroe St. Present were: co-chairs Maggie Price and Cindy Johnstone; Diana Helper, Kathleen and Jay Rust, Ronnie Crawford, Ray Ehrenstein, James Sample, Marlene Johnson, Katie and Steve Fisher, Greg Sorenson, Kathleen Wells, Sonia John, Brad Cameron, Louis Plachowski, George Mayl, John Joseph Niemann, Kim Morse, Jim Considine, Paul Brown, Mary Sharp, Darcy Wilson, Nancy Francis, guest speaker Happy Haynes, DPR Executive Director
Notes from INC PARC Meeting Jan 19, 2016
Katie reported on the recent PRAB (Parks/Rec Advisory Board) meeting, of which Jay is now a member. Topics included Paco Sanchez Park, two Basin projects, flood planes, Cole neighborhood impact, the gulch projects.
City Planner Mark Bernstein of “The Outdoor Downtown,” sponsored by DPR and Downtown Denver Partnership, presented a slide talk.
Cherry Creek Dam Water Control Plan Modification Study
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Omaha District will hold a public meeting
on Tuesday, January 26, 2016 from 6-8pm to gather input on modifying the
Cherry Creek Dam Water Control Plan to release more water from the dam
during extreme flooding events.
WHAT’S KILLING THE TREES IN DENVER PARKS? IT’S THE WATER — AND A LOT MORE
BY ALAN PRENDERGAST
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2015 WESTWORD
The attack came without warning. It was carried out swiftly, with ruthless, mechanized efficiency. And when it was over, it was as if the trees had never been there in the first place.
Rich Grant had never seen anything like it. A forty-year resident of the Washington Park area and the retired director of communications for Visit Denver, Grant walks around the park every day. One exceptionally warm day in October, he headed out on his usual route, eager to take in the fall colors — and found Evergreen Hill closed off and under siege. The hill, a prized grove of conifers on the north side of the park, had been taken over by Denver Parks and Recreation crews equipped with cherry pickers and chainsaws.
Second Round of Public Meetings For The Urban Waterways Restoration Study
Based on public input and technical data, a range of options are being developed for all three waterways to achieve habitat and ecosystem restoration. Complementary goals of flood risk reduction and enhanced recreational opportunities are also being considered. Separate meetings are being held for Weir Gulch and Harvard Gulch
Recycled water doing damage to conifers in Washington Park in Denver
About 90 mature evergreen trees — some up to 100 years old — have died in a patch of mountain forest in the middle of Washington Park, and neighbors are blaming the recycled irrigation water.
The park has been irrigated with recycled water — storm and wastewater cleaned up not quite to drinking standards but OK for lawns and other landscaping — since 2004. But in the last three years the canopy shading what is known as Evergreen Hill has begun to disappear.
Last month alone, 21 dying conifers — mostly blue spruce and Douglas firs — were removed from the hill along Virginia Avenue near Lafayette Street at the north end of the park.