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Lake Metroparks has reopened the pond at Canine Meadow Dog Park, the park district introduced in a Nov. 10 Facebook publish.
The pond was closed on Oct. 17, with Lake Metroparks citing “high bacteria levels.”
“We follow the same guidelines that a pond or water source, including Lake Erie, would use for human swimming,” Lake Metroparks Farmpark administrator Lee Homyock stated of the park’s assessments after a previous closure.
“We monitor at least once a month,” he added. “If we see any indications, we start testing. If it actually had a failing test, we would continue to test every few days until it passed.”
Park Services Director Tom Adair previously said that the pond normally closes a number of instances a 12 months, with most closures being as a result of excessive ranges of fecal coliform micro organism. Those closures occur most frequently after intervals of heat temperatures and excessive humidity in July, August or September, and the degrees typically return under the security threshold in a number of days because the climate modifications.
The park’s assessments “tend to be…more conservative estimates and higher thresholds than what a pet would even require, but we choose to test at those higher levels to make sure we’re being exceedingly safe with how we approach it,” he added.
The most recent closure “was a little late in the year to have that happen,” Homyock stated.
Canine Meadow Dog Park is situated at 9010 Euclid-Chardon Road, Kirtland. According to the park webpage, it features a 2.57-acre giant canine space, a 1.02-acre small canine space and the 1.84-acre pond.
A listing of park guidelines and etiquette are available at bit.ly/3DffUkw.
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