Creekside Park Parking Lot and Paved Access to the Boat Launch Now Completed
Collegeville’s Creekside Park is now becoming a reality with a 15-space parking lot which connects to a boat launch on the Perkiomen Creek. The work was made possible by two Montco 2040 grants from the Montgomery County Planning Commission which totaled $172,876. The area has also been landscaped and re-seeded. The Borough worked together with the Perkiomen Watershed Conservancy’s Ryan Beltz, who received a separate grant to restore the boat launch. This spring, the Borough’s Parks Committee under Kathy Costello will be adding a number of concrete picnic tables to the site. To get to the park, turn right onto the Chestnut St. Extension from Rt. 29 across from Kimberton Whole Foods, and then turn right again on W. First Ave.
Following the flooding from Hurricane Ida, FEMA provided grants to the Borough to purchase the damaged homes of 20 residents who formerly lived along the creek. Those homes are slated to be demolished over the next several months with all the impervious surface removed, and the area will be restored to its former natural state as a flood plain. The entire area can then be made part of our Creekside Park. Everyone in the Borough will have a chance to weigh in with their ideas for the development of the larger park this spring. The Borough will be soliciting ideas in public meetings both in-person and via Zoom. However, because the land is being deeded to us from FEMA and must be returned to its natural state, no permanent structures can be built.
The parking lot can also be used by people wishing to walk along the creek from the new trail created by the Lower Providence Sewer Authority during their work to bury a second large sewer pipe. The original gravel road which ran through the Central Perkiomen Park has been covered with soil to create a trail. The trail follows the creek west behind the Collegeville Crossing and Perkiomen Woods developments.
The Creekside Park will be given a more formal name this spring. Collegeville Borough, along with Ursinus College, has formed a partnership with the Delaware Tribe of Indians who are the original indigenous inhabitants of Collegeville. As part of the Welcome Home Project for the Lenape people, which has included the reinternment of remains, reading important books, engaging in discussions and other actions, we will be naming our park, “Pretty Place” in Lenape, or “Welakamike.”
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