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Parks staff ask council to accept donation of about 100 acres of reclaimed Pikeview Quarry; third-party review finds site stable with monitoring needs
Summary
Parks staff asked council to accept a roughly 100-acre donation of reclaimed Pikeview Quarry after an independent geotechnical review concluded the site is currently stable; the donation includes a Leica slope-monitoring system and requires short-term monitoring and maintenance (estimated ~$10,000). Ten acres are inside the city; the remaining 90 acres are in the county and would require annexation and rezoning.
Parks staff asked council on April 27 to accept a donation of approximately 100 acres of reclaimed Pikeview Quarry, part of a multi-phase acquisition that would bring roughly 415 total acres into city stewardship when combined with prior purchases and frontage acquisitions.
Lana Thelen, design and development manager for the parks department, and David Deitemeyer of the TOPS program reviewed the 10-year reclamation and acquisition timeline. Staff said reclamation concluded in 2025, the state Division of Reclamation, Mining and Safety approved the work and released surety, and the department…
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