After two years and $500,000, Fresno County is moving to approve plans for the reconstruction of Lost Lake Park near Friant.
The plan is to make the high places low and fill in the lake with dirt. I agree. Flatter is better.
The plan calls for a one-mile long overflow channel dug through the heart of the park, which will remain dry 99.9% of the time. There also will be 35 acres of ponds that will remain forever dry because they’re situated above the water table. But surrounding these dry ponds will be 125 acres of turf kept perpetually green once developers and the Friant community realize that they can use the turf as spray fields for effluent.
The plan envisions a 27-acre Friant Community Park inside Lost Lake Park, which raises a question about the proper name for the upgraded park(s). “Lost Lake” doesn’t seem quite right. At first the lake was merely lost; then it was made dry; and now it’s to be eliminated altogether.
How’s this? ‘Lost the Best Natural Park in the County.’ Too long. ‘Lost Ducks?’ Too silly. So what’s really being lost? Unfortunately, our minds, uninformed and ineducable as they are, have no concept.
Radley Reep
Clovis
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