AMARILLO, TEXAS -- The severe drought we're in is causing the water levels everywhere to drop, and that includes those within Amarillo City limits. In fact, the water levels at one city park have many concerned. Pronews 7 spoke with the city's parks and recreation department to find out how they're addressing the problem. If you've been to Medi-Park in the last few weeks, it's a good chance you've noticed how much the water levels have dropped. The shoreline is exposed, and now, so is the trash. It's an eye-sore, Pronews 7 found that has people talking.
"It gets to you because you come down here and you expect to see a nice scenery, you know, because it's always been nice like this. But we haven't had any rain or really anything, so as you come down here you can tell, its just the water is really depleting and you can see all the trash," said Armando Obregon, concerned about the water levels.
The water levels continue to just get shallower and shallower.
"Due to the recent drought the lake levels at some of our lakes have gone down. So what we're doing at Medi-Park is that we're putting some additional water into the lake, we're going to try to raise the lake up about a foot in elevation than what it is now," said Larry Offerdahl, Amarillo Parks & Recreation Director.
Offerdahl says that will be happening in the next few weeks. With our area in a severe drought, Pronews 7 wondered, where's that water coming from to pump into the lake?
"We bring in water from those lakes and also might use a little bit of fresh water from the city system," said Offerdahl.
"It's sad to see something like that, whatever they (city) can do would be nice to put something else in to help out and make the community, well this part of it, to look better," said Obregon.
As far as the trash, which is now visible because of those low levels. Offerdahl says the lower the levels actually make it easier to clean up and says crews will be out this week.
