Farmington eyes splash pad project

While volunteers mobilize for the upcoming second Farmington Harvest Festival, the organizing committee has their eye on a project that may be built from its proceeds.

The five-member group decided at their first meeting for the Sept. 21 Festival that they will aim to install an interactive splash pad in the city park.

Chairman Frank Triplett estimates the feature may be 30 feet by 40 feet, beginning with a concrete pad from which will emerge fountains, buckets dropping, water guns and other features.

“That’s the direction the committee is going,” said Triplett.

The idea is that each year the...