Upcoming Community Engagement
Mark your calendar and plan to join us for the next public engagement sessions on the restoration of Doan Brook near Horseshoe Lake Park. Meet the designers and engineers and learn about the challenges and opportunities associated with this important project.
Virtual Public Meeting
Wednesday, November 30
6-7:30 pm Please register
Public Engagement Open House
Shaker Heights Public Library (16500 Van Aken Blvd.)
Saturday, December 3
10:30 am–1 pm
Pre-Design Underway
Coonamessett River Gateway Park
The first phase of restoring the Doan Brook at Horseshoe Lake is now underway with a dynamic, interdisciplinary team assembled by the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District (NEORSD) working on pre-design. The design team is led by Boston-based landscape architecture firm, STIMSON, which has completed numerous restoration projects, including at the Doan Brook restoration at the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Coonamessett River Restoration Project in Cape Cod (see photo).
Over the next several years, this team will work to remove the dam at Horseshoe Lake and restore the two branches of the Doan Brook that flow through this site. When complete, the restoration of the Doan Brook will create a beautiful, new community greenspace that sustainably manages stormwater headed for the Lower Shaker Lake and ultimately Lake Erie.
This pre-design phase, initiated in early summer 2022, is expected to take about a year. It will lead to a detailed design phase starting roughly in the summer of 2023 and concluding in 2024.
Community Engagement
In August, NEORSD held two events to kick off community engagement for the restoration of Doan Brook. Miss these events? Watch a recording of the virtual meeting below or read media coverage of the open house at Horseshoe Lake Park.
Original source can be found here.
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