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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A $1.6M splash pad was unveiled successful the City of Fresno connected Wednesday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.
The caller splash pad is astatine Fink-White Park astatine 535 S. Trinity St., Fresno.
City officials the splash pad volition springiness section children a amusive enactment for keeping chill during Fresno's heatwave. Mayor Jerry Dyer was astatine the ribbon-cutting ceremonial on with Councilmember Miguel Arias.
Dyer says Wednesday was the cleanable time to unfastened the caller splash pad astatine Fink-White.
"It's going to get hotter this summertime and with that, we're going to person much and much kids arsenic good arsenic adults instrumentality vantage of this splash pad," said Dyer. "This is the ninth splash pad that we volition person opened."
The caller splash pad has a ample h2o ring, h2o blaster, oversea creatures - and a themed dump bucket, which Dyer described arsenic his favorite.
"This splash pad is precise important to the kids who unrecorded successful and astir this neighborhood. One of the reasons is the closest splash pad is simply a mile distant and rather frankly excessively acold for our kids to locomotion it," Dyer said.
Dyer described it arsenic the archetypal splash pad westbound of Highway 99 and South of Highway 180. Construction costs for the splash pad were $1.6 million.
"Yes, $1.6 cardinal is simply a batch for a splash park, but it's good deserved, good earned. The neighbors merit the aforesaid prime of splash parks that we would person successful northbound Fresno," Councilmember Miguel Arias said.
