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Cascade Lake beach opening

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Cascade Lake beach openingSummer swimming with social distance

Rochester pools and foster arend beach are closed for the entire summer... but there is some hope if you're looking for a place to cool off in the med city.

A new beach may be opening for the first time.

That's where we find kimt news 3's annalise johnson.

She joins us live.

Annalise?

Katie ?

"* you can see here the beach at rochester's newest park ?

"* cascade lake park ?

*s locked off currently.

But on friday ?

"* the city hopes to open it up for the first time.

There will be no lifeguards ?

*- so people will be swimming at their own risk.

The city also expects swimmers and sunbathers to use common sense when it comes to social distancing.

Cascade lake park is about 30 years in the making... there's still some ammenities that need to be added when funding becomes available ?

"* but the playgroud and now the beach are the latest additions to be open.

I spoke to mike nigbur ?

"* director of rochester parks and forestry about the decision to open the beach.

That normalcy that people want and crave for right now after being cooped up for so long.

We've heard complaints or concerns about not having any pools open, with good reason, people want to be outside.

But we also hear the other side saying you know there's still concerns about covid and the transmission of that kind of virus around the close contact of people.

This gives people the option to be outside, be more spread out, still have some water activity, but there's less amenities to go around for that activity so why open this beach ?

"* but not foster arend beach?

Nigbur tells me foster arend park was leftover from years of mining ?

"* and was never intended to e used as a beach.

There are sharper drop offs ?

"* while cascade beach is more gradual so the city feels it's safer for people to swim unattended ?

"(here ?

"* than at foster ar live in rochester annalise thank you annalise.

The public toilets at cascade lake park are not yet built ?

"* but there is one portable toilet near the playground.///




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