The Friends of Chippewa Park want your opinion on several options to remove the nearly-70-year-old dock and breakwater at the park.
Project Manager Iain Angus says you can help them decide how to carry out the project to improve the shoreline.
Their proposal features several choices for the shoreline, beach area, and the breakwater.
The four choices for the shoreline west of the breakwater are to remove the timber retaining wall, return the shoreline to its natural state, build a rock shoreline, or replace the retaining wall with steel. Three similar options are on the table for the beach shoreline, and organizers must decide whether to do the work in the summer or winter.
Angus says a study done in 2015 found this is necessary to improve the water.
“If we take out the dock and the armour stone, the bay will turn over a number of times during the summer more than it does now, and that, we believe, will keep the water cleaner and more acceptable for public swimming,” he explains.
The project will also include protecting the shoreline from erosion, and is expected to start next summer. Angus adds the Friends of Chippewa Park will also be applying for $1-million in provincial money to do the work.
