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Grand Opening of Water Play Area at Beale Park

The fabulous four become the fantastic five. The City’s newest water play area, and the largest to date, opened at Beale Park, on Monday, September 19th. The media and public are invited to joined Mayor Harvey L. Hall, Councilmember Sue Benham and neighborhood residents at the grand opening event. Special guests from Roosevelt and William Penn Schools and the Boys and Girls Club was also in attendance.

The City has constructed five water spray parks since the summer of 2004. As with the other facilities at Wayside, Planz, MLK, and Jefferson Parks, the addition of Beale is expected to be a very popular neighborhood amenity.

The new wet play area at Beale Park is located at 500 Oleander Avenue, just east of the tennis courts. A 3,909 square foot concrete pad surrounds the water play features. Twenty-two total features allow users to experience at least fourteen different ways to get wet. Above ground features, such as the Silverflow Dumping Bucket, Three Fall Silver Trio, Misty Arch, Perispray, Silverflow Cannon, Twister and Orbit give the facility a futuristic look and will entice kids to gravitate towards the space age structures. A number of ground level features, including the Ground Geysers, Directional Water Jets, Water Tunnel, Donut, Twister and Rooster Tails will shoot, stream, jet, mist, drop and spray liquid fun. These features will provide anything from a gentle cool off to a completely soaking.

A new light standard was erected to allow for evening use. In addition, a shade structure, picnic tables, and benches will soon be installed.

Like the City’s other spray parks, use of the Beale facility will be free of charge. It will be in operation during regular park hours, from 9:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., seven days a week and will remain open through September. The City’s five spray parks are scheduled for close for the season at the end of the month, although they remain in operation longer if weather conditions permit.

Construction of the new spray park was made possible through the use of Park Development Funds.