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Better environmental planning needed at our dog parks | Opinion
Why install a permanent wash station in a public dog park without fully addressing what happens when people use it in the ordinary way?
When taxpayer dollars are used to install permanent public dog wash stations with hoses and wash hardware, citizens reasonably assume those stations will be used for washing dogs with shampoo and soap. That assumption is not careless; it is foreseeable, and good planning should account for it.
Leon County recently installed dog wash stations at Bradfordville Dog Park near drainage areas that feed a stormwater retention pond. Yet the stations are not connected to sanitary sewer infrastructure and instead discharge directly onto the surrounding ground.
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