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Parks maintenance reports boardwalk cleanup, playground work and winterizing plans
Summary
Superintendent Tom Tackett updated the Anderson City Parks Board on Oct. 7 about this year's pool and recreation season, an extended schedule for the splash pad and paddle boats, ongoing playground and restroom projects, and an extensive cleanup of the Thomas R. McMahon River Trail boardwalk with FEMA repairs noted.
Tom Tackett, superintendent of maintenance, told the Anderson City Parks Board on Oct. 7 that seasonal operations and capital projects were progressing.
Tackett said the South Side pool ran through Labor Day and closed afterward with no water-quality incidents. He said the splash pad was being run through Oct. 12 because of warm weather and that paddle boats and kayaks would continue through Oct. 26 "as long as the weather stays like it is." Tackett said weekend turnout this year was strong.
On capital work, Tackett said new restrooms are in planning for Warren Miller and Pulaski Park and that construction of a new playground on Middlebrook Parkway began the previous day; he estimated about three weeks of work to complete the playground, barring early cold weather. Tackett said flower baskets will be removed and crews will begin winterizing park properties and that crews focused on tree and honeysuckle removal across multiple properties, including work on the trail system.
Tackett described a large cleanup on the Thomas R. McMahon River Trail boardwalk section behind the jail, saying the crew cleared more than 700 feet of boardwalk and "took all the debris from underneath all the way to the river's edge" across multiple terraces. He said the Anderson Chief Anderson overlook is part of that stretch and that some repair work there would be eligible for FEMA funding; crews cleaned the area to prepare for those repairs.
Greg Spencer submitted a written maintenance report for the golf course; the report noted aerifying, seeding, drainage and cart-path repairs on holes 10 and 11, the use of city compost and local sand to reduce an estimated $3,000 in purchases, and that leaves and fall herbicide/fertilizer schedules are upcoming.
No formal board actions were taken on capital projects during the meeting; board members thanked staff for the work and asked no substantive changes.
