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Bathroom at Chautauqua Park demolished
The city of Fairfield demolished the wood-framed bathroom near the entrance to Chautauqua Park Tuesday.
Heavy machinery was still on scene Wednesday hauling away the debris from the structure that is believed to date to the 1960s. Fairfield Parks and Recreation Director Calvin Todd said cracks in the foundation and resulting broken pipes were a sign it was time to scrap the building and build anew. The parks department plans to put portable toilets in the park once it opens later this spring, and to build a permanent bathroom either late this year or early next year.
The parks department has maintained a portable toilet on the east edge of the park for a few years, and Todd said that portable toilet will remain.
An excavator picks up chunks of concrete that once formed the foundation of the bathroom at Chautauqua Park. The bathroom, an A-frame building from the 1960s, was demolished Tuesday. (Andy Hallman/The Union)
The bathroom at Chautauqua Park in Fairfield just before its demolition Tuesday. (Photo courtesy of Frank Broz)
The same shot of the bathroom after its demolition. (Photo courtesy of Frank Broz)
An end loader carries away pieces of the bathroom's foundation at Chautauqua Park. (Andy Hallman/The Union)
An excavator digs up pieces of the foundation of what was once the bathroom at Chautauqua Park. (Andy Hallman/The Union)
