Funding OK’d to make water more palatable, clear way for swimming at Lake Shawnee Adventure Cove

The Shawnee County Commission approved a project budget totaling $386,250 Monday to make the water more palatable and clear the way for swimming at the Lake Shawnee Adventure Cove.

Commissioners Kevin Cook, Shelly Buhler and Bob Archer voted 3-0 to adopt that budget to use excess reserve money to cover costs to replace the recirculation pump that formerly created a continual movement of water in that cove.

Patrons cited a reduction in water quality as the main reason for no longer going to the Lake Shawnee Swim Beach formerly located at the Adventure Cove’s current site, parks and recreation director John Knight told commissioners.

He said that while patrons like the various recreation options the county began offering this year at the Adventure Cove, “they still want the swimming component.”