Kings Lions Park dog areas to be closed as crews begin repair of underground drain pipe

According to Lemoore Public Works Director Nathan Olson, Quad-Knopf, the city’s engineering consultant, will pay for the repairs. Quad-Knopf has hired Floyd Johnson to complete the work.

The east end of the park includes the two dog parks. Both will be closed for the three to four weeks as repairs are completed.

Somehow a change in the design and construction of an underground drainage pipe in the Kings Lions Park at Highway 198 and 19th Avenue was at the crux of the unsightly 3 to 4-foot drainage pipe emerging from the ground.

The large pipe was built originally when the park was renovated following the construction of the 19th Avenue overpass. The park was completely remodeled and now hosts a parking lot, bathrooms, two ball fields and two dog parks, separate spaces for large and small dogs.

The exposed pipe, clearly visible above the grassy area, is in the middle of the small dog park, and it has been closed for several months while city officials and its civil engineers, from the Quad Knopf, decided what to do to fix it.

According to Olson, the pipe was originally meant to be constructed out of concrete, but somewhere along the line somebody, whether the city or Quad Knopf, may have changed it to plastic.

Olson said that Quad Knopf agreed to pay the cost of repairing the pipe.

Olson said the pipe is a drain line that removes water from the park and expels the water via an outlet in the parking lot, another issue that Olson says Quad Knopf will remedy. It’s been 8 or 9 months since it came up he said.