A spray park and pedestrian walkways for Adams Township Community Park are specified in a $250,000 grant from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

Adams Township families will soon have somewhere new to keep cool over the summer, as the township received a $250,000 grant from the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to fund the construction of a new spray park at the Adams Township Community Park.

The DCNR grant specifies funding for “a spray park, pedestrian walkways and marking, plus a filtration and recirculation system, utilities, fencing, ADA access, landscaping, signage and other site improvements.”

“We had discussed a splash pad project in our park master plan update in 2019,” said Haley Zaliponi, Adams Township parks and recreation director. “We did a survey for that, and a community pool or splash pad was a top improvement for the park that came out of that survey. We decided to go with a splash pad as a more affordable recreational amenity to be installed instead of a community pool.”

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The splash pad location is indicated by the red square near the basketball courts, and the pickleball court location by the orange square near the main parking lot of the municipal building and next to the T-ball fields.Submitted photo