By month’s end, there should be aerators bubbling along Memorial Boulevard.
The red, white and blue aerators will add a little patriotic splash to the newly dredged ponds along the historic parkway honoring the city’s veterans.
Park Director Ed Swicklas said one aerator is all set to begin as soon as Connecticut Light and Power hooks it up. Another is waiting for an electrician, he said.
Swicklas said they should be working before October.
The Bristol Veterans Council chipped in $15,000 to purchase aerators for the ponds.
Park officials said the bubblers will help keep the water moving around better and, with luck, improve the quality of the ponds during the summer months.
The city recently dredged the boulevard ponds a year ago and is angling to keep them in better shape in the future.
The veterans council has long said it would like to see some kind of fountains in the ponds to provide a visual impact while keeping the water in better shape.
Plans call for the bubblers to be removed during the winter months to keep them safe.
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7 comments:
I love the flag and patriotic gestures, but red white and blue for lagoon fountains is just tacky.
Tacky, yes, but they'll fit right in with those butt-ugly split rail fences.
AWWWW come on? Wheres your sense of civic pride? It will be our own little Belagio on the brook. Heck we can stick in some pink flamingo's, those cut out painted outlines of a fat lady in a polka dot dress bending over, the possibility's are endless! With a man like Ed at the helm of the Park Department and a government that doesent cotton to public input, what did you expect?
I'm curious to see what it looks like. We can always pull the plug if we don't like it. We've come too far to stop now. Flip the switch.
Lights should be white and only white. Its suppose to be a serene setting!
This sounds awful. I think this should be reported to the Blight committee.
If we did this right, this could be a miniature golf course.
Seriously, the boulevard used to be a place of quiet dignity where one could reflect on the sacrifice of our soldiers. There is a timelessness to the obelisk and its inscription.
Now it is becoming a celebration of the big egos of little men.
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