Birds Hill beaches shaping up nicely

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By: Adam Wazny

Posted: 09/3/2014 1:01 PM | Comments:

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Kids will be frolicking at revamped beaches at Birds Hill Park next summer. The beach expansion project is part of a five-year, $22-million commitment the provincial government made to Manitobas busiest park in 2012.

The beaches at Birds Hill Park might be closed for the season but that doesnt mean there isnt any action at the popular watering hole.

Construction crews are well into their work expanding the West Beach area at the provincial park, with excavation on a new swimming lake starting to take shape.

The expansion of the beach area, which will eventually see the existing East Beach and West Beach ponds connect to a newer lake/beach further west of the original configuration, is expected to be completed by the end of October (weather permitting), with minor vegetation and landscape work completed before the start of the May 2015 long weekend.

The East Beach and West Beach closed for the season on Labour Day.

Minister of Conservation and Water Stewardship Gord Mackintosh said the expansion is necessary given the increasing popularity of the park, which is just north of Winnipeg on Highway 59.

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Birds Hill beaches shaping up nicely