The spring time weather has truly been delightful for the past couple of weeks. I hope you are enjoying it!
A Vision Of and For Our Downtown
(Photo below compliments of Jesse Sadiua)
While this aerial snapshot captures Town Square on a bright and sunny day, the work being undertaken by Downtown Lima, via the efforts of Jennifer Brogee, will help fashion a vision for its future.
Jennifer wears several hats. She is a co-owner of the Meeting Place on Market, an employee at HR Services, and a board member for Downtown Lima. In the latter capacity, she has undertaken to create a Marketing Plan for the downtown and wants feedback from you and others. The Lima News website is carrying Jennifer’s survey and it will run for the next 2 weeks.
Please take a minute to fill out the survey & forward this email to friends and associates.
Link: http://www.limaohio.com/sections/infocenter/downtownsurvey/
Also, Downtown Lima now has a Facebook fan page. If you're on Facebook, please become a fan. That way you will be notified as events take place in our central business district. Feel free to post events, information, memories of Downtown Lima to the fan page Wall.
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Downtown-Lima-Ohio/112518775432855
Lima’s downtown continues to be a vigorous community center. You can add to its dynamism by partnering with us as we encourage ongoing positive change and development.
Now, tell me, how are you going to fill it?
Last night, I attended the Hall of Fame dinner for Lima Central Catholic High School, as 4 terrific individuals—John Bishop, Tony Lester, Brett DeCurtins and Dick Ireland--were inducted into the school’s Hall of Fame. (The following link describes the inductees: http://epaper.limaohio.com/Olive/ODE/LimaNews/Default.aspx?href=LMA%2F2010%2F04%2F17&pageno=9&view=document).
Following the dinner, a friend approached and began to comment in some amazement about Lima’s new 5.1 billion gallon reservoir under construction on the west side of town. As he concluded, he wondered aloud, “Now, tell me, how are you going to fill it? Are you just going to wait on the rain? Won’t that take a while?”
The answer is “No, rainfall by itself will not fill the new reservoir.”
Instead, we’ll help Mother Nature by pumping from the Auglaize River in order to fill the new containment, and it will take us most of a year in order to do that.
Below are several pictures of components for the new pump station just installed.
Photo 1: This is a surge tank, constructed in South Dakota and transported across 5 states at 35 mph. It regulates pumping pressures in 3 miles of pipeline connecting to the reservoir.
Photo 2: The surge tank being lifted into place next to the Auglaize River pump station.
Photo 3: The original pump station (in brick), the new pump station (under construction), and the surge tank placed on the east side.
Lima’s 3 east side reservoirs—Lost Creek, Metzger and Ferguson—are fed by the Ottawa River. The Bresler and new reservoirs on the west side are fed by the Auglaize River. These five up-ground containments will provide us with over 15 billion gallons of storage, yielding over 40 million gallon per day for residential, commercial and industrial uses. A terrific resource for long term economic development!
Take care.
Dave
David & Linda Berger
1211 Lakewood Avenue
Lima, Ohio 45805
419-228-7498
dberger@wcoil.com
