home | welcome | news & events | parks | customer service | contacts | brochure | jobs | register online!
programs, classes, & activities | recreation centers & facilities | inside oakland | rental facilities | request a facility 
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
News & Events
|
home > news & events >
Oakland, $300,000 to help fix man-made waterfall Posted in the San Francisco Chronicle on Thursday, February 10, 2005 Written by Jim Herron Zamora A City Council committee has approved spending $300,000 to help restore a historic water cascade at a popular public staircase near Lake Merritt. The Life Enrichment Committee voted 3-0 Tuesday to allocate money to renovate Cleveland Cascade. The cash comes from Measure DD, a 2002 parcel tax passed to raise $198 million to improve Lake Merritt, the Oakland Estuary and the channel that links the two. Cleveland Cascade is a 100-foot-long man-made waterfall bordered by staircases. Its water spills from bowl to bowl from Merritt Avenue to Lakeshore Avenue along the northeastern edge of Lake Merritt. Built in 1923 by landscape architect Howard Gilkey, the waterfall fell into disuse during the 1950s and was eventually covered by rosemary bushes. The waterfall was partially excavated by volunteers last year. Volunteers formed a nonprofit group to renovate the waterfall. For more information, go to www.clevelandcascade.org The San Francisco Chronicle
|
Related links: - San Francisco Chronicle - Cleveland Cascade |
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|
|||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||
