{"id":19177,"date":"2010-06-08T17:42:12","date_gmt":"2010-06-09T00:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/kent-to-close-lake-meridian-boat-launch-because-of-high-water\/"},"modified":"2016-10-22T09:45:29","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T16:45:29","slug":"kent-to-close-lake-meridian-boat-launch-because-of-high-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/kent-to-close-lake-meridian-boat-launch-because-of-high-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Kent to close Lake Meridian boat launch because of high water"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kent city officials will temporarily close the boat launch at Lake Meridian June 9 because unusually high rainfall has resulted in a significant rise in the lake&#8217;s water level and poses a risk to the shoreline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBoating activity and the wakes they create could potentially cause erosion of the shoreline,\u201d said Jeff Watling, city Parks and Recreation director, in a June 8 city media release. \u201cThe amount of rainfall we\u2019ve seen this June is unprecedented. Closures of the boat launch typically occur only during winter months.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>City officials will evaluate water levels daily and the boat launch will re-open as soon as conditions permit.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Meridian Park, 14800 S.E. 272nd St., remains open for recreational use, with the lake still available for swimming. The parking lots are open as usual.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, call the parks department at 253-856-5100.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kent city officials will temporarily close the boat launch at Lake Meridian June 9 because unusually high rainfall has resulted in a significant rise in the lake&#8217;s water level and poses a risk to the shoreline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-19177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19177"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=19177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}