Green Valley State Park Gets Overhaul

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Green Valley State Park Gets Overhaul

By KCRG Intern

CRESTON (AP) - State environmental officials say Green Valley State Park in Creston in southeast Iowa will get a major overhaul over the next two years.

The transformation is expected to include a new lake and improved campground.

Iowa Department of Natural Resources staff began lowering the lake earlier this month.

Major renovations to the campground and other park development work is expected to begin sometime after the 2008 camping season.

The project includes paving a one-mile trail from Mitchell Marsh north of Creston that will connect with Green Valley State Park.
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Wednesday, Jul 23 at 8:37 PM i love taxes wrote ...

yeah i cant wait to pay taxes on a park i will never give two craps about. hmm i heard a couple cities in iowa got flooded a while back. thats odd. hope the state park is doin ok. and i hope someone adopts those kittens that is just horrible! homeless cats o man i feel so so bad.

Tuesday, Jul 22 at 10:59 PM Taxpayer wrote ...

Seriously....how can this money be spent on "park renovations" when so many in IA are suffering from natural disasters!?!? Would we choose to budget our own money this way?! NO!

Tuesday, Jul 22 at 10:51 PM Born in Creston wrote ...

Too bad our tax dollars are going a park in this old run down town - CRESTON (I was just there last weekend). It hasn't changed in 50 years except the population keeps dropping!! Another government waste of our money.....just like the mess in Iraq that Bush got us into!

Tuesday, Jul 22 at 8:13 PM Whizz wrote ...

I was raised about 8 miles north of Green Valley, My dad and I used to go fishing there, it is a wonderful park as it is, Ill try to make it down there after it is renovated. Boy, there was some big fish in there then I caught a five pound catfish and that was between fourty and fifty years ago, way to go state of Iowa this park deserves it.

Tuesday, Jul 22 at 2:57 PM Old Guy wrote ...

Glad to hear that our state parks are getting a sprucing up. Families need this for enjoyment. Nice to also hear that some of the long term projects have not been sidelined due to all the other needs we have at the moment. I hope this park gets some great use out of it. Way to go. I really like to read about good news also. Nice Reporting KCRG

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