The Trinity Trust Foundation held a media roundtable and lunch today, which really just served as an opportunity for an update that everyone is still working on all the various components we’re familiar with: the horse park, the Audubon Center, the trails, etc. They’re still doing good things. Though one thing to look out for: The Dallas Watersports Complex. They’ve apparently obtained 13 of 15 permits needed to open, and since they are going to be located on Fish Trap Lake – about a mile from the bridges and the levees and the toll roads and the rest – we are officially allowed to be excited about it. If you want a sneak peak, their cable system is on display right now at the Dallas Boat Show.
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Ah, this explains where the Calatrava Bridge To Nowhere is actually going….Take the bridge over the river and go jump in a lake.
Seriously, is this seasonal thing the reason people will be going into West Dallas besides getting dope and dumping dogs?
So does this mean the water at Fish Trap Lake is clean and safe? I always imagined that lake as the main storm water drainage point for the entire West Dallas industrial area. Think about all the manufacturing and warehouses along Singleton Boulevard and the railroad tracks a few hundred feet to the south. Would you ever – ever – swim in that lake?
Love reading the Front Burner posts from people still yammering over the “Bridge to Nowhere” and speaking without knowledge about the lake’s water quality.
Must be why the hottest real estate speculation has turned to West Dallas. Must be why the urban planner for Vancouver has been hired and an entire new planning studio has been created by the City to reshape West Dallas ahead of what’s coming. Must be why urban pioneers have begun to stake a claim in West Dallas with hot spots (Smoke and the Belmont Hotel), art shows (ArtCon5), theater productions (upcoming run of “Vagina Monologues”), clubs (like Jack’s Backyard), guerilla restaurants (like 48 nights), mixed-use developments (like Sylvan Thirty) and recreational development’s like the Dallas Watersports Complex and Mercy Street’s Field of Dreams.
Who on earth would ever – EVER – thought this would happen over here?
We did.
Killer…. went to the one outside Austin last year and it was great. This one looks to be even bigger and better… Dallas needs more recreational facility’s like these…. GOOD WORK…
Oh, Dave. You’re so serious. And, yet, misguided. Key word is “speculation” — a bad concept through the centuries.
Oh, publicnewssense. You’re so cynical. Thank god you have this and other blog outlets to do such good works for the world. I’ll sleep much better knowing you’re on watch.
The water quality does present a significant marketing challenge. Hopefully steps will be taken to install fountains to aerate the water and improve the ecosystem within the lake. There are also eco-friendly dyes that help keep the water temperature lower to prevent bacteria from proliferating.
We really appreciate everyone’s comments. The water has been repeatedly tested and is safe and well within EPA guidelines for the proposed use. There are more details about the water quality on the park’s website http://wwew.dallaswatersportscomplex.com.
Cable water parks also greatly improve the water quality – here is a link to that information
http://www.thewakeparkproject.com/systems/enviro_benefits.php
For us, this is very much a “get our kids off the couch” type of project and we will have no problem encouraging our children to ski and wakeboard in the lake when it opens in a few months.
Unfortunately, research shows that lead contamination along with other hazardous toxins have plaqued this commmunity for numerous years. Just a year ago, battery casing are still found in residental yard. Toxic contamination is at the bottom of the Trinity River, such as PCB, so what could possibly be in the Fishtrap Lake that cannot be detoxed or drained, for how can you detox what has been settled at the bottom of the river for numerous decades, for the citizens of this community suffer the a generational curse of health impairments due to toxic contamination.
Can they be cleaned up or detoxed, Is a River more important that a life, think about it, do your homework.