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Water shortage on City Hall Plaza
By adamg on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 12:10pm
Update: Turns out the water turns on at 11 a.m. every day.
Swimman79 reports from an arid City Hall Plaza playground:
it’s 10:23am on a hot Sunday morning and the water is barely running at the new city hall water feature??? Just the barest of trickles and some features have no water at all.
It turns on at 11 every day - here it is yesterday (Saturday). It’s pretty phenomenal! pic.twitter.com/XvBnWtp5yx
— Charlie Reichenbach (@Chasbo87) June 25, 2023
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Comments
???
omg when did they put that in? i've barely been down there since my old office moved from state & congress.
Last year
Part of a $95 million redo of the former Giant Brick Sea.
Wow
Everything looks fine here despite what people first on site are saying.
.......$95 million and built
.......$95 million and built in the neighborhood probably least densely populated by children....brilliant.
Maybe not a lot of kids live right there, but ...
Think of all the kids who come as visitors - Faneuil Hall, the North End, the Freedom Trail, etc.
I'd visit before complaining.
I'd visit before complaining. You might change your mind.
The playground didn't cost $95 million
But in spite of the apparent lack of families with kids in the immediate vicinity, the playground is still super-busy when the weather is nice.
Yes should be a water fall
Yes should be a water fall or sprinkler because all open space.
Give back
Check the Greenline tunnel.
Check the Greenline tunnel.
Post updated
No, the brand-new playground isn't broken, maybe just a bit late: The water thing turns on at 11 a.m.
Good to know.
I thought maybe Archimedes screwed up. TONS of kids there all day every day (plus stupid grown-ups, college kids and teens trying out the equipment in various ways, cruising for a broken collar bone or wrist). BTW, anyone know when it shuts down, I could use a bath tonight.
oh heck an Archimedes screw
Those are so cool. :-) I wanna try it.
(Although apparently it's more properly an "Egyptian screw", because it was invented in Egypt long before Archimedes...)
Uh, turns on at 11 and turns off when?
Each time we've been there, typically late-afternoon, it's been bone dry. Do they only turn it on for people who like to risk the stongest UV rays of the day?