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Wildomar's Heritage Regency Park. Alice Doesn't Live Here!

Update #1 (What's coming down the pipeline)
Added a picture of future visitors to Heritage Park the next time it rains.
Its been a most interesting day wandering through Heritage Bayou along with a number of other lost souls, despite the fact the park is fenced off and closed to the public.
After returning to my abode I wandered the internet trying to find information on who came up with the idea to deposit copious amounts of street drainage into the slough which had been called Heritage Regency Park. I found part of the answer is a most unlikely place “LOS ANGELES COUNTY DEPARTMENT OF BEACHES AND HARBORS CONTRACT FOR HARBOR ENGINEER DAVID EVANS AND ASSOCIATES, INC” in which while bidding on another project there is a description of what is known as the Bryant Street Drainage Project during which 4,400 linear feet of 30 inch concrete drain lines where installed beginning at Marna O’Brien Park, picking up all the water from Bryant Street and surrounding areas and ending their journey at Heritage Park, this along with what was the existing drainage from Palomar Street, Grand Avenue, two tracts of homes and a school that already drained through the park have turned it into Heritage Bayou.
None of this would be a problem for the park as a 20 foot wide concrete pathway for the water exist in the park, if a couple of things went along with this new drainage construction, that being the removal of enormous amounts of dirt and trash before it reaches the park along with an exit strategy for the water entering the park as maintenance of the drainage easement ends at the west end of the park and is not to be maintained again until the flow reaches the Lake Elsinore city limits 736 feet away where it becomes a wetland remediation/ passive park.
The fault of the City of Wildomar, not directly as all this work was done under the County of Riverside through the then Redevelopment Agency now known as Riverside EDA, but, the City of Wildomar in their haste for local control did not think about what they were taking on and what it would cost and who was going to pay for it.
Measure Z funds should not pay for this problem, this is not park maintenance, operation or programs.

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