Corona relocating basketball, volleyball courts as $7 million water treatment plant nears opening.
Corona’s roughly $7 million ion exchange water treatment plant is close to starting operation at City Park as the City Council on Wednesday, July 5, approved funding to relocate basketball and sand volleyball courts closed two years ago to make way for the plant.
The council voted 5-0 to use $631,000 from the water utility fund to build two outdoor basketball courts and a sand volleyball court on a gravel lot at the park.
The courts were shuttered in October 2015.
We cannot eliminate them,” she said.
Court construction should begin in August and be finished in January, Moody said.
The amount of perchlorate in the water is declining, said Moody.
Naturally occurring in some fertilizers and potash ores, perchlorate is also a man-made chemical used to make rocket fuel, missiles, explosives, fireworks and flares.
High levels of nitrates in water can interfere with the blood’s ability to carry oxygen and are dangerous to infants and fetuses, according to California Water Boards.
Plans to build new baseball and soccer fields at the park this year are on hold after Corona didn’t win needed grants.