Groundbreaking for Lazybrook Park

On April 10, 1999 Tunkhannock Township, Pennsylvania held a groundbreaking ceremony for a new community park on the former site of Lazybrook Acres, a 75-unit housing development destroyed by the flooding of Tunkhannock Creek in January 1996. The 40-acre park will include an amphitheater, playing fields, trails accessible to the disabled, and fishing and wetlands restoration areas.

At the ceremony, Congressman Don Sherwood recognized the variety of private organizations and local, county, state and federal agencies, including RTCA, that helped with planning for the the park.

 The National Park Service's Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance (RTCA) helped Tunkhannock Township develop a plan to convert the site into a community park, facilitated the development of a reuse plan in partnership with the Pennsylvania Organization of Watersheds and Rivers, and helped the township secure a $50,000 matching grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to help build the park.

Contact: Dave Lange, RTCA Program, Philadelphia, (215) 597-6477

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