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Ingram Park plan: consultants recommend filling or regrading dog pond amid water-quality concerns
Summary
Ayers recommended eliminating or regrading the dog-pond water feature at Ingram Park because of recurring water-quality and maintenance problems, and proposed accessibility, parking and trail upgrades with an estimated cost of roughly $2'$3 million if implemented in one phase.
Consultants told the commission that the dog-pond feature at Ingram Park poses recurring water-quality and maintenance challenges and recommended either filling the pond or grading it into a dry feature to save ongoing testing and upkeep. Melissa Hunt said many communities with non-spring-fed ponds opt to close or regrade similar features because of algae and testing burdens.
Commissioners raised a concern that the park had been donated with conditions requiring a dog-park use; Hunt said staff would check the original deed/donation terms and report back before work proceeds. Hunt also reviewed design changes: a 10-foot mixed-use asphalt trail with a bike lane, better sidewalk connections to adjacent neighborhoods, expanded parking by the playground, additional pavilion/shade areas, and phased approaches to construction. "You're probably looking at somewhere between 2 and 3,000,000," she said as an order-of-magnitude estimate for a full Ingram implementation.
