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Friends of Garfield Park update board on Sunken Garden fountain rebuild, seek $575,000 for maintenance endowment
Summary
Friends of Garfield Park described a full rebuild of the Sunken Garden fountains, outlined construction and preservation work and said the group is raising $575,000 to endow long-term maintenance.
Friends of Garfield Park on April 22 presented the board with progress on a multi-year restoration of the Sunken Garden fountains at Garfield Park, describing a full rebuild of the fountain vaults and systems and a continuing fundraising campaign to secure long-term maintenance funds.
Libby Heiple, executive director of Friends of Garfield Park, said the project team had dismantled the three fountain basins, excavated and resized the vault that houses pumps and control systems and is reinstalling new pumping, lighting and sequencing systems to restore dancing water and color effects. She told the…
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