HAMDEN — In 1969, local conservationists first approached the owner of a 102.5-acre contaminated property in the southern part of town about cleaning it up and turning it into a state park.
More than half a century later, Six Lakes is still heavily polluted and closed to the public, despite growing calls for remediation and a strong desire from the state to preserve more undeveloped land as open space.
Trails for wheelchairs and strollers. A pavilion for events and education programs. Kayaking and fishing.
All these ideas and more emerged from a meeting at Thornton Wilder Hall at Miller Library in Hamden, held by Six Lakes Park Coalition, as the coalition invited the public to submit input on what a future state park in the middle of Hamden might look like, and how it might best serve the community around it.
