Hiking The HOT Tandy Hills Thinking About Using Eminent Domain To Get The Fort Worth Public A Place To Swim

The Tandy Hills were heated to the low 90s when I hit the hills around noon. It is 97 right now. We are back with 100 degrees, or more, in the forecast, starting tomorrow.

Every time we go to flash flood mode more of the Fort Worth Water Works "bridge" across Tandy Creek washes away. Soon the blue pipe will be completely exposed.

Would you not think the FWWW would come clean up this mess?

Speaking of Fort Worth water, Fort Worth has no plans to open any of its closed swimming pools. Supposedly it would take $6.1 million in repairs to make the pools swimmable.

The population of Fort Worth is over 700,000. I wonder if the All-American City of Fort Worth is the biggest city in America with no public pools?

I wonder if Fort Worth is the biggest city in America with no public beaches? Like those one might find on a lake in other municipalities.

The only other big city with which I am familiar in detail is Seattle. Seattle has several lakes one can swim in. Like Green Lake. Or Lake Washington. There are also several Puget Sound beaches, in Seattle, where one can swim. Like Alki Beach.

I know a creek must flow in to and out of Green Lake, but I don't think I've ever seen it. How is it that Seattle keeps Green Lake clean enough to swim in? While one can not eat the fish one catches in Fort Worth's Fosdic Lake, or swim.

Recently a new "lake" opened in Fort Worth. The Cowtown Wakeboard Park Lake. If part of the Trinity River Vision Boondoggle was to build a large, swimmable lake with a beach, it would seem slightly less boondoggly to me.

Has the Cowtown Wakeboard Park gone out of business yet?

Fort Worth has another lake where one can pay for the privilege of getting in cool water. It is called Burger's Lake. The lake is a one-acre spring-fed pool in a 30 acre park. Entry to Burger's Lake costs $12 per person age 7 and up. Only $5 if a kid is 1-6 years old.

Fort Worth and Tarrant County is the Eminent Domain Abuse Capital of America. Methinks it would be a legit use of eminent domain for the pool-less city of Fort Worth to take Burger's Lake by eminent domain, for the public good, then open the park to the public at a greatly reduced entry fee.

I'm sure Betsy Price will get right on that as soon as she's sworn in as Fort Worth's new mayor.