Seymour youths' campaign for new skate park succeeds; state to pay $187,000 (videos)

By Jean Falbo-Sosnovich
Register Correspondent
SEYMOUR — Youths who live for riding their BMX bikes and skateboards will get a new skate park.
First Selectman Paul Roy and state Rep. Leonard C. Greene Jr., R-105, this week said the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection has secured $187,000 to enable the town to build a skate park.
To speed the process, construction of a park will no longer be contingent on the DEEP’s long-awaited fish bypass project to begin. That plan, which the state introduced in 1998, has been held up for various reasons. The DEEP is now waiting for the town to finalize some paperwork and contracts on land acquisition needed to make way for the bypass on the Tingue Dam on the Naugatuck River.

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