Enhancing panorama of river park
LEWISTON — Joseph Davis State Park features 1,200 feet of public access to the Niagara River, but for years, those looking to get a glimpse of the water, or go fishing, had to push their way through thick brush.
Including poison ivy.
“The first thing we’ve done is clean it up,” Supervisor Steven L. Reiter said. “But there still is a lot of housecleaning to be done.”
The town, flush with Niagara River Greenway money, stepped into the park’s future last year, when Joseph Davis State Park was put on a closure list as the state grappled with a $10 billion budget deficit.
Town officials offered to maintain the park as part of a 10-year lease, with a 10-year renewal option, and took the keys May 5.
There has been a lot to do ever since. They’ve attacked weeds, graffiti and the limited access in several parts of the 357-acre park.
When they opened one of the buildings on the site, a chicken ran
out.
“The waterfront visual is priceless,” said Neil E. Nolf, chairman of the town’s newly formed Joseph Davis State Park Local Development Corp., an intermediary volunteer board that will oversee the park and report to the town.
“We are providing a source of relief,” Nolf said of the town’s decision to run the park. “We are going to take the park in a direction that it can be utilized by our community.”
The local development corporation includes volunteers with various backgrounds. Nolf is a former spokesman for the Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station. William D. Hilts— the county’s sport fishing coordinator, who has already proposed a fishing-related project for the riverside park — is another member. Contractors, local developers, community leaders and engineers also are in the mix.
“We can roll up our sleeves and do this,” Reiter said. “The state had an opportunity to develop this park, but they either never had the will financially or the will outright to do it.
“Lewiston is in a good position because we have financial resources from our financial agreements with the Power Authority, and we have the will to develop this park so it will be self-sustaining. That’s our goal.”
Lewiston, home to the Power Authority’s Niagara Power Project, will receive $510,000 a year over the next half-century for parks and recreation improvements as part of the 2007 relicensing of the power plant. The relicensing agreement spurred the creation of the Niagara River Greenway Commission, which helps guide Lewiston and other localities along the Niagara River as they develop and connect their locales.
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