By Joe Piasecki
Pasadena Sun

 

Big changes are in the works for the west side of Hahamongna Watershed Park, where city officials plan to build a new sports field, make trail improvements and raise acres of ground to prevent seasonal flooding.

Depending on the outcome of an environmental review that starts this week, the roughly $5.7-million series of projects could break ground by 2014 — around the time county workers would begin excavating as much as 4 million cubic yards of sediment from behind Devil's Gate Dam.

The plan calls for a new multipurpose athletic field directly east of the 300-acre park's existing field, on an area partially used as an overflow parking lot.