[NENA] xeroscaping the Arroyo Park

[Lisa Abeyta]

Ms. Cunnar,

Since you have personally witnessed the water waste in the Nor Este  
Park, you are definitely the best person to report it since you know  
all of the details.

You can call the hotline at 768-3640 so that the leak can be  
discovered and repaired.  Thank you for being so attentive as to  
notice this issue and to properly report it to the correct authorities  
so that it can be dealt with properly.

You can also visit this website and fill out the appropriate form if  
that is easier for you: http://www.abcwua.org/content/view/74/64/

Every neighborhood association is only as strong as the willingness of  
its members and neighboring community to volunteer time and effort to  
fill in the needs of the community as they arise, so thank you for  
taking this on.  It is appreciated.

Sincerely,

Lisa Abeyta
NENA Membership Chair
abqwriter at msn.com

On Sep 9, 2008, at 9:37 AM, K Cunnar wrote:

> Dear NENA Members,
>
> Every time I walk my dog at the Arroyo Park, I enjoy the lush green  
> grass.  My own back and front yard
> is xeroscaped, so my dog has a nice place to run around.  At the  
> last Neighborhood Association Meeting,
> I asked our President for imput on my idea to get a 200 stipend  
> offered at the Office of the Neighborhood
> Association to improve the area.  I was told that if I wanted to be  
> the sole person to do all the work, then
> I could.  Well, each day I see the Parks and Rec people out in the  
> Arroyo Park what the Parks and Rec
> people don't see at night is all the water waste at the Arroyo  
> Park.  I keep thinking that somebody is going
> to report the water leak that has water shooting up like a rainbow  
> of water spout about 10 feet in  the air.
> It has been several months and nobody has reported this disgusting  
> waste of water.  Our President and members of the Board work during  
> the day and don't have time to help with simple 200 dollar stipend  
> projects.
> Society cannot leave it up to Parks and Rec to discover the water  
> sprinkle system leak where the majority
> of water from the leak goes into the Arroyo and not on the grass  
> causing more times needing to be watered.
>
> It would be a shame to loose the green grass, but the water leak is  
> causing a terrible leak and waste of water.
> I am going to be proposing that the Arroyo Park be xeroscaped with  
> rocks and a rock garden- no more
> green grass. That would mean having to take our dogs to a Dog Park  
> or to the park on Academy and Eubank where there would be green grass.
>
> It makes no sense to keep funding a water leak.  I perhaps am a  
> little bit more sensitive to water waste
> as if not for water being drilled and discovered in 1993, then the  
> area subdivision would not be developed.
> It used to be people had water tanks on their property and had to  
> get water from trucks delivered to their
> property.
>
> Nor Este just like every other Neighborhood Association needs to do  
> their best at water conservation.
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