By Gary Ogle
gogle@wbcowqel.com
With a bit of levity about creating “Bill Fisher’s waterfall,” Crawford Park District commissioners approved payment for a tile project at Lowe-Volk Park on Wednesday.
The project was completed last week by Adkins Drain, Sewer and Septic at a cost of $15,000. The Park District will withhold $500 for seeding and grading work which will be done in the spring.
The tile was actually replacement of an old clay tile and runs from the south property line of the park underneath the driveway to the quarry wall visible from Ohio 598.
“It was an expensive project overall,” conceded Director Bill Fisher. “But it provides needed drainage.
Commissioner Bill Carpenter said having to go under the paved driveway was the expensive part of the work.
“But it will be good now for 70 years,” Carpenter estimated.
In other brief business the commissioners began looking at the possibility of purchasing a digital event sign for Lowe-Volk Park and options for funding the project through Friends of the Crawford Park District.
Fisher and Carpenter have a scheduled meeting on Tuesday with the Crawford County Commissioners about an unrelated matter.