{"id":397,"date":"2015-01-29T13:16:16","date_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/sustainability\/?p=397"},"modified":"2015-01-29T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2015-01-29T13:17:13","slug":"397","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/?p=397","title":{"rendered":"Delaware to improve boat access to Olentangy River"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Image from\u00a0“Olentangy River\u00a0Restoration Efforts Improve Aquatic Life”<\/a> from the USEPA.<\/em><\/p>\n

Delaware to improve boat access to Olentangy River<\/h2>\n

Reblogged from the Columbus Dispatch<\/em><\/a> (Thursday, January 29, 2015)<\/p>\n

By Dean Narciso<\/p>\n

DELAWARE, Ohio \u2014 Since Delaware\u2019s early settlement more than 200 years ago, boats and canoes have been launched from its Olentangy River banks.<\/p>\n

With the help of a grant from the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, there will now be a safer, easier method of entry than climbing over rocks and along crude paths.<\/p>\n

The city will use a $152,900 state grant to build three access sites this year. Two will be in Mingo Park and one on Cherry Street, south of the city-owned recycling buildings.<\/p>\n

The Mingo Park access will be on the park\u2019s north and south sides. The north site will include timber stairs and handrails leading to a boat-removal area.<\/p>\n

The south site will have a paved parking area and a 55-foot paved path to a launch area.<\/p>\n

The Cherry Street site will have a gravel parking lot and a 200-foot gravel trail to the river. That site is intended for both launching and boat removal.<\/p>\n

Traffic to the sites will be helped by Preservation Parks of Delaware County, which plans to build an entry point at River Run Preserve, north of the city limits near Delaware Dam. Together, these projects will provide the public access to 7.5 miles of water trail.<\/p>\n

\u201cOpportunities for our recreational boating community will greatly increase because of these launch sites along the Olentangy River,\u201d Delaware City Manager Tom Homan said in a news release. \u201c Water trails join communities, provide scenic venues for recreation, increase health and well-being and create educational opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n

Delaware spokesman Lee Yoakum said \u201cthe river is not used as much as it could be because access is poor.\u201d<\/p>\n

The new facilities, to open around April 2016, should help the river become as important as the city\u2019s network of road and bike paths, Yoakum said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s truly the heart of the city. It\u2019s where Delaware began.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The city of Delaware will use a $152,900 state grant to build three access sites to the Olentangy River this year. Two will be in Mingo Park and one on Cherry Street, south of the city-owned recycling buildings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,19,21,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olentangy-river","category-opportunities","category-places-to-visit","category-water"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":401,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397\/revisions\/401"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sustainability.owu.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}