The City of Prince George and DWB Consulting Services held an open house Thursday night on the different options of how to fix eroded parts of Cottonwood Island Park.
“In the past, we had all those issues about erosion,” explains Project Manager Michael le Marvin.
“So the city gave us some money to do the studies, and we hired DWB to tell us what we should do and what recommendation they could give us.”
There are three preferred options, each potentially being implemented in different areas of the park.
The first is a riprap where rocks would be put into the edge of the river to prevent erosion, the second is a setback trench which s similar to the riprap only the rocks are placed further inland, and the third option is bioengineering which is to hold soil within the bank in areas where erosion is not as strong.
Each option differs in cost and impact.
The total design and construction cost is estimated at over $1-million.
DWB Consulting now presenting on future engineering options for Cottonwood Island Park pic.twitter.com/gLzF4lAary
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The goal is to keep one of the more popular parks functional and sustainable moving forward.
“Cottonwood Island Park is unique,” explains le Morvan.
“First of all because it’s downtown and it’s so close and so many people use it, it’s great it’s just one of those natural areas.”
Public input is being accepted until December 8th, with a feedback for available online here.
Once all information is collected and a plan is set, the groups will look to council for extra funding on the multi-year project.
Open house at @pg_library for Cottonwood Island Park upcoming work to prevent damage to the park and trails pic.twitter.com/VA7npy3brm
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