Officials in Brentwood, a community about five miles from Bay Shore, recently broke ground at Roberto Clemente Park, where a spray park will be built.
The park was closed in 2014 after toxic waste was found on the site. Although the park reopened in 2017, officials have continued to work on it.
Bay Shore's Shipwreck Cove is serving as the model for the spray pad in Roberto Clemente Park. The new area will feature a splash pad and two pool areas that are age-appropriate. The park will be an inclusive site, accessible to people of all ages and levels of physical ability.
There will be 30 water features at the park, which will have a filtration system of its own, separate from that filtering water for the swimming pool. Work on the pool, which was shut down in 2012, should be finished this summer, though no exact date has been given for the reopening.
The State of New York has made $2m available to fund the park's construction, while the Town of Islip itself is doing the demolition of the concrete already on site using a 25-ton excavator with a hydraulic jackhammer, which should reduce the cost of the spray pad.
Officials working on projects like this can use banner printing to decorate the venue for an opening celebration.
