Park’s grass pays price for lack of groundskeeper

By June Watanabe

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Nov 21, 2012

~~QUESTION: I’ve been going to Koko Head District Park for 12 years, and the grass there has always been lush and often overgrown. Recently I’ve noticed that it’s completely dead. It seems as if someone has turned off the sprinkler system and is relying on Mother Nature to do the watering for them. Has the city stopped watering the park because of budget problems? Is anything going to be done any time soon to restore the grass?
ANSWER: The manual watering was stopped because the Department of Parks and Recreation is short-staffed.
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QUESTION: I’ve been going to Koko Head District Park for 12 years, and the grass there has always been lush and often overgrown. Recently I’ve noticed that it’s completely dead. It seems as if someone has turned off the sprinkler system and is relying on Mother Nature to do the watering for them. Has the city stopped watering the park because of budget problems? Is anything going to be done any time soon to restore the grass?

ANSWER: The manual watering was stopped because the Department of Parks and Recreation is short-staffed. Login for more...