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Water shortage on City Hall Plaza

By adamg on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 12:10pm
Almost dried up water feature at new City Hall Plaza playground

Update: Turns out the water turns on at 11 a.m. every day.

Swimman79 reports from an arid City Hall Plaza playground:

it’s 10:23am on a hot Sunday morning and the water is barely running at the new city hall water feature??? Just the barest of trickles and some features have no water at all.

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Comments

By Kokernutz on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 12:24pm.

omg when did they put that in? i've barely been down there since my old office moved from state & congress.

By adamg on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 12:34pm.

Part of a $95 million redo of the former Giant Brick Sea.

By John Costello on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 1:27pm.

Everything looks fine here despite what people first on site are saying.

By Eirish on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 12:54pm.

.......$95 million and built in the neighborhood probably least densely populated by children....brilliant.

By adamg on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 1:57pm.

Think of all the kids who come as visitors - Faneuil Hall, the North End, the Freedom Trail, etc.

By Plen-T-Pak on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 7:00pm.

I'd visit before complaining. You might change your mind.

By ScottB on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 8:07pm.

But in spite of the apparent lack of families with kids in the immediate vicinity, the playground is still super-busy when the weather is nice.

By Kurt on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 9:57pm.

Yes should be a water fall or sprinkler because all open space.

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By dd808 on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 12:58pm.

Check the Greenline tunnel.

By adamg on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 1:57pm.

No, the brand-new playground isn't broken, maybe just a bit late: The water thing turns on at 11 a.m.

By MrZip on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 2:25pm.

I thought maybe Archimedes screwed up. TONS of kids there all day every day (plus stupid grown-ups, college kids and teens trying out the equipment in various ways, cruising for a broken collar bone or wrist). BTW, anyone know when it shuts down, I could use a bath tonight.

By Tim Mc. on Sun, 06/25/2023 - 3:21pm.

Those are so cool. :-) I wanna try it.

(Although apparently it's more properly an "Egyptian screw", because it was invented in Egypt long before Archimedes...)

By anon on Mon, 06/26/2023 - 2:53am.

Each time we've been there, typically late-afternoon, it's been bone dry. Do they only turn it on for people who like to risk the stongest UV rays of the day?