Contract Awarded for Sewer Plant Art Project
The City Council awarded a $100,000 contract to Seattle artist Lorna Jordan, who will develop a public art project at the sewage plant next to Ventura Harbor.
The $700,000 project--the most expensive of its kind in city history--will use wetlands behind the Ventura Water Reclamation Facility as the centerpiece of an educational park, which would be designed to attract tourists and bird-watchers.
The park would be developed around three ponds containing millions of gallons of treated effluent. The developed site could include pathways and viewing platforms to allow visitors to see how treated water travels from the ponds to the wetlands.
Jordan and her team--a landscape architect, an environmental planner and an environmental scientist--can now begin creating a master plan and demonstration project with the $100,000. A series of public meetings will be held to discuss the plan.
The project is expected to be completed by the summer of 2004.
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