[NENA] xeroscaping the Arroyo Park

[Paul Grunwald]

Careful there with the lush green grass, people might suspect something.

 

   For city water leaks call THREE-ONE-ONE.

 

From: members-bounces at noreste.org [mailto:members-bounces at noreste.org] On
Behalf Of K Cunnar
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 9:37 AM
To: members at noreste.org
Subject: Re: [NENA] xeroscaping the Arroyo Park

 

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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