Kim Vogel, director of Kansas Pittsburg Parks and Recreation in USA gave the city commission an update on the Schlanger Park Splash pad project, which will be replacing the wading pool at the park. The splash pad will include a variety of water features divided into “development”, “discovery”, and “adventure” zones. “The adventure zones have the taller features that will have the water cascading down on them,” Vogel said. “The development zones will have the smaller stones, the little smaller waterfalls where the smaller children can sit and play, and then the discovery zones will have the waterways and the interactive puddles that children can jump on that, the harder you jump the taller it goes. There will also be an interactive “water table” feature with three different levels and three arms coming off of it that will be able to accommodate several children at once who will be able to adjust the speed of the water flow. The splash pad is expected to accommodate 60 or more children at a time altogether, and should be up and running by mid-May or early June - the same time as the Pittsburg Aquatic Center is set to reopen. (2020/12, 193G)