The state Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) is backing off its plan to convert a wading pool off River Street into a spray deck, according to a state lawmaker, days after community members, calling the plan short-sighted, lit into the agency for leaving them out of the loop. At a public meeting last week, DCR officials said the decision to remake the wading pool
Residents on Wednesday lit into the state Department of Conservation and Recreation over a plan to convert a wading pool off River Street into a spray deck, saying the agency left them out of the loop and calling the plan short-sighted. DCR officials acknowledged the decision to remake the wading pool at Mattapan’s Ryan Playground as a spray deck had already been made, citing