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Friends of Forks Pond, residents urge fixes for path erosion and lawn problems; ask city to enforce contractor warranties and add meeting MP3s
Summary
Speakers from the Friends of Forks Pond and other residents told Sutherlin council the new walking path and playground lawn at Forks Pond Community Park are eroding or were installed improperly; they urged the city to pursue contractor accountability, fix the lawn, consider a smoking ban in the park and publish MP3 versions of meetings online.
Jim Hausman, president of the Friends of Forks Pond, and Beth Hausman, a volunteer and neighbor, told the council the newly constructed walking path and playground lawn at Forks Pond Community Park are suffering flooding, erosion and poor turf installation that, they said, reflect contractor failures and insufficient corrective action.
“During this six-week period, public works employees regularly drove through the flooding sections of the path during their nearly daily patrols, and no preventative action was taken,” Jim Hausman said. He told the council public-works staff later installed riprap on two sections and lowered the…
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