By Patric Hedlund, TME

A team of fact-finders is gathering informally, determined to learn what is—and what isn’t—responsible for the disappearance of the Frazier Mountain Park pond. While theories abound on social media, others are looking into the history of the ponds and leaning more about the history of water in this area.

Early on, Cliff Carlisle, Drew Lesso, Richard Sheffield and Russ Siebers—caretaker for Frazier Mountain Park—took a walk with The Mountain Enterprise to investigate the state of the springs that historically fed the pond.

Earlier, we had published a report about the quest to locate historical records regarding the five spring-fed ponds which once dotted the area now used for playing fields at the park.

Many of us were skeptical that there really were once…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Left and above: Local historian Bonnie Kane looks over vital documents for understanding water flow and water rights disputes in this area. Jim Kane and Mike Parker are both former FPPUD water board members. Parker had useful information about the 1994 loss of water from the pond. At right, The Mountain Enterprise publisher Gary Meyer looks on.

1927 and 1957 legal filings were a major breakthrough to understand the historic flow of water in Frazier Mountain Park.

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This is part of the April 26, 2019 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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