Toledo’s Beatty Park Closing
Toledo, Ohio –Toledo’s Beatty Park will be closing October 1 for the installation of a major sewer upgrade as part of the federally mandated Toledo Waterways Initiative. Beatty Park is located in the South Cove Boulevard and Auburn Avenue area.
“Beatty Park will need to be closed from October 1 potentially through the spring of 2013,” said George Robinson II, TWI’s Commissioner. “We’ll be installing roughly 2,900 lineal feet of nine-foot diameter pipe, with 1,300 lineal feet planned to go through Beatty Park. With the size of these sewers, the depth of the trenches and the large concrete junction chambers that will need to be constructed, there was no safe way to keep the park open during construction.”
Construction is planned to begin near the intersection of Ayers Avenue and South Cove Blvd. and in the east portion of Beatty Park. Construction will proceed west through Beatty Park, exiting near the intersection of South Cove Blvd. and Auburn Ave., continuing along South Cove Blvd., and ending at the intersection of South Cove Blvd. and Monroe Street.
The TWI program was developed to reduce pollution of area waterways, including the Maumee and Ottawa Rivers and Swan Creek. The pollution typically occurs during extreme wet weather. The reduction will be accomplished by eliminating bypasses of untreated wastewater at the City’s Bay View WWTP; eliminating overflows from sanitary sewers into area waterways; and reducing and, in some cases, eliminating overflows from combined sewers which carry a combination of sanitary sewage and rainwater.