Extensive Plan To Stabilize Pike Lake Shoreline To Begin
May 19, 2018 at 4:10 a.m.
By Dan [email protected]
The city’s board of works and public safety approved a contract with Heartland Restoration Services, Fort Wayne, to begin work to stabilize the shoreline on Pike Lake.
Parks and Recreation Superintendent Larry Plummer said the work on Pike will take an estimated five years and that improvements to the shoreline on Center would follow.
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Improvements on Pike Lake will be conducted in four phases. The first phase will cover about 1,300 lineal feet of shoreline and will cost an estimated $66,385.
The following phases will have a combined cost of about $105,975, according to paperwork provided by the city.
Shoreline improvements will include a mix of glacial stones and vegetation.
The first phase will start at the Pike Lake campground and work its way around the lake to a point near Lucerne Park, which is already updated.
“Years ago, there was some glacial stone put in at the Beyer Park area, but they’ll top that off to make sure because it’s probably been 20 years since we did that,” Plummer said.
Continued erosion of the shorelines has led to visible changes, Plummer said. In one instance, the amount of grass being mowed along part of the shore has been reduced, Plummer said.
“If we don’t stop it, we’re not going to have any parks or campground left at Pike Lake,” he said.
Plummer said desires to do shoreline restoration work have been hampered by a lack of money, but that changed once they found a funding source through the stormwater office.
Work on the first phase will begin after the camping season, which concludes at the end of September, Plummer said.
In other matters, the board of works approved plans to purchase three vehicles for the police department from Kerlin Motor Company, Silver Lake.
Kerlin’s total bid was $70,109.93 and includes the trade-in of seven vehicles.
Kerlin was one of three companies to submit bids. Rice Ford of Warsaw had a slightly lower bid with the overall quote, but the company did not request use of the “local preference” option in its bid preparation, which would have allowed for a 3 percent discount.
The third bid was from a Bloomington dealership.
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The city’s board of works and public safety approved a contract with Heartland Restoration Services, Fort Wayne, to begin work to stabilize the shoreline on Pike Lake.
Parks and Recreation Superintendent Larry Plummer said the work on Pike will take an estimated five years and that improvements to the shoreline on Center would follow.
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Improvements on Pike Lake will be conducted in four phases. The first phase will cover about 1,300 lineal feet of shoreline and will cost an estimated $66,385.
The following phases will have a combined cost of about $105,975, according to paperwork provided by the city.
Shoreline improvements will include a mix of glacial stones and vegetation.
The first phase will start at the Pike Lake campground and work its way around the lake to a point near Lucerne Park, which is already updated.
“Years ago, there was some glacial stone put in at the Beyer Park area, but they’ll top that off to make sure because it’s probably been 20 years since we did that,” Plummer said.
Continued erosion of the shorelines has led to visible changes, Plummer said. In one instance, the amount of grass being mowed along part of the shore has been reduced, Plummer said.
“If we don’t stop it, we’re not going to have any parks or campground left at Pike Lake,” he said.
Plummer said desires to do shoreline restoration work have been hampered by a lack of money, but that changed once they found a funding source through the stormwater office.
Work on the first phase will begin after the camping season, which concludes at the end of September, Plummer said.
In other matters, the board of works approved plans to purchase three vehicles for the police department from Kerlin Motor Company, Silver Lake.
Kerlin’s total bid was $70,109.93 and includes the trade-in of seven vehicles.
Kerlin was one of three companies to submit bids. Rice Ford of Warsaw had a slightly lower bid with the overall quote, but the company did not request use of the “local preference” option in its bid preparation, which would have allowed for a 3 percent discount.
The third bid was from a Bloomington dealership.
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