With recent environmental site assessments on Snowden Park’s soil and groundwater complete, the city is closer to beginning a $50,000 renovation project.
City Manager Greg Horwedel said the city received last month clean test results from Orlando-based PPM Consultants Inc., which performed in February a site assessment to determine whether the soil contained any contaminants, including petroleum products, volatile organic compounds or metals, such as arsenic, barium, cadmium, chromonium, lead, mercury, selenium and silver. Last month, it completed similar tests on the groundwater.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development required the assessments, because Snowden Park was constructed in the 1960s atop a former landfill.
With the test results, the city now can move forward with its $50,000 proposal to install several new dugouts, more lighting and additional landscaping. The renovations will be funded through a community development program grant.
“We’re excited to get going,” Horwedel said.
Located at 902 Waller St., Snowden Park is one of 18 city parks. It was named July 24, 1967, in honor of Ronald L. Snowden, a young boy who died at age 10. The park features two lighted baseball fields. It also has bleachers, score booths, one lighted basketball court, three picnic pavilions, a playground with swings and a .4-mile paved walking trail with a .2-mile paved trail connector to Grant Street and the Grant-Hunter pond facility, known as the future Brewer Park, which is currently under construction.
It is the city’s goal to create a network of parks that can be linked by trails.
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