Restrooms at Diamond Lakes Park are out of service … again

AUGUSTA, Ga. (WRDW/WAGT) – 5 months after Augusta Commissioners referred to as for modifications at Diamond Lakes Parks, we’re studying the restrooms are again out of service.

We went to have a look and noticed soiled sinks, bathrooms, and trash within the restrooms.

In September, Commissioner Alvin Mason informed us greater than $500,000 was put aside to repair these points.

The town says the towers have been a problem for Diamond Lakes going again to once they opened in 2012. Again then, it was simply water leakage, however since 2019 greater than $900,000 have gone into fixing up these buildings that carry on having points.

“Being a man and you already know, we going to run into the woods, however you already know, then again, being a feminine or one thing, they will’t do what we’d do,” stated Theodore “Bama” Callen, Diamond Lakes walker.

Bama has walked at Diamond Lakes nearly morning for the previous eight years.

Whereas he doesn’t thoughts utilizing the accessible moveable bathrooms, he want to know why they hold being closed.

“I feel that they need to open them if they need to be open, however I don’t know the rationale why they closed them once more, so each time one thing occurs, there’s gotta be a purpose why they did it,” he stated.

Ron Lampkin is the director at Augusta Central Providers. He stated, “I imagine beginning again in 2012, that was a separate difficulty that was inflicting the leaking, in order that was corrected. It’s simply been a a number of of issues which have simply spiraled.”

A number of contractors have labored on this difficulty since 2019, however the administration says Common Plumbing has but to be held accountable for work that was paid however not accomplished.

Transferring ahead with a brand new contractor, they hope to totally perceive the complete extent of this difficulty within the coming weeks.

“As soon as we get again to work on these buildings, we’ll know that the top product will give us what we have to have these towers up and working for the following 20, 30 years,” he stated.

Lampkin says that whereas there isn’t a precise timeline, he’s assured in having these buildings checked out and stuck by spring.

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