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Layer Park opening could be delayed a few months

MIAMI TWP. — The reopening of Layer Park in Miami Twp. could take a couple more months, despite the sign out front indicating "Park will open in Spring 2018."

The park has been shut down since January 2016 because of high levels of lead and arsenic found in the ground.

The lead and arsenic was initially found back in 2013, when the park was the site of a former shooting range.

Those tests only came to light in early 2016, in what the Ohio Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) admitted was a big mistake.

The federal EPA used more than $3 million from a super fund to clean up the park, costing the township nothing.

EPA work initially wrapped up in October, but the grassy areas still need more work, we've been told.

Dave Hill, a resident who lives next to the park, is glad the digging and hauling of dirt is over so he can regain some peace and quiet.

"Big semi trucks, hauling it out, all that earth moving equipment back there, steam shovels," Hill said.

Township contractors installed a new play set, basketball hoop, and planted 60 new trees.

The parking lot has also been redone.

Hill says the reopening can't come soon enough, and is hopeful the park will reopen soon so he can take his grand kids.

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