By Dominic Abassi

Open house to detail extensive improvement plans for Colliery Park

Apr 1, 2017 | 6:12 AM

NANAIMO — With more than $340,000 worth of upgrades planned for Colliery Dam Park over the next few years, the City of Nanaimo is looking to connect with the park’s users.

An open house goes Saturday, April 1, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the park’s lower lake. City staff will be on hand to answer questions and gather input.

More than $230,000 worth of the projects outlined in the Park Improvement Action Plan approved by council are scheduled to happen in 2017.

Those include safer access into the lower lake, completion of the restored sandy swimming beach, two fishing docks, a covered picnic shelter and $40,000 for public art on the wall of the new spillway.

The City’s parks and open spaces planner Rob Lawrance said Colliery Dam Park is an integral piece of the parks system.

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“We want to be there to support their efforts, the many volunteers involved in making the park a better place. Whether it’s invasive species management or consulting more with the users about the look and feel of the park, we’re willing to work with our partners to make that happen,” he said.

Lawrance said they’ve had some positive, on-going meetings with associations that came to life during the contentious years that surrounded the park recently.

You can view the full action plan for the park here.

dominic.abassi@jpbg.ca

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