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Originally Posted by wong21fr
It's always funny to see what is a flood channel get repurposed into a "park".
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It is definitely a stretch to call this a "park," but it still a VERY nice addition to the neighborhood, and that aerial photograph really doesn't do justice to what they built here.
This isn't really a "flood channel" so much as a hillside that includes the outlet for an irrigation ditch that historically supplied the Arvada town reservoir (now the community garden) with water. This space isn't really there for storm drainage as much as it is just the line in the grid where Garrison Street would otherwise have gone through. The ditch probably would have been abandoned years ago, except Arvada still owns the water rights and allows the community garden to pull from the ditch, but only when the region isn't facing any water restrictions. This drainage also captures some storm runoff, but isn't really a significant part of the neighborhood's storm sewer network. That said - what was there before was concrete, and now the drainage flows over a semi-permeable surface that will encourage groundwater infiltration.
I would not consider this a "park," but the new paseo is a MUCH better walking path and a better use of the space than
what was there before. An actual
photograph of the improvements (such as below) shows what a huge aesthetic and functional improvement this actually is. It also provides better pedestrian and bicycle access to the Ralston Central Park(and the
upcoming Beer Garden), just north of Ralston Road.
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