More than 2,300 feet of steel pipe and cable fence now line some of the roads and parking areas of Kellogg Lake.
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nstalled at a cost of about $11,000, Carthage Parks Director Alan Bull said the fence was needed to stop people from driving on the grass in parts of the park.
He said people in four-wheel-drive vehicles have repeatedly driven out in the grass and put muddy ruts in the fields.
Bull said the citizen members of the Kellogg Lake Committee and the city debated for a year about the fence before agreeing on a design and exactly where the fence would be installed.
Waylon Miller, an Avilla farmer, was contracted to build the fence. Miller said he initially intended to build it back in January, but ice storms and repeated flooding rains kept him from working on it until now.
On Monday, Miller was in the park putting the final touches on a gate across the old Route 66 roadway that leads to the spot where Spring River bends to the north.
Bull said the Kellogg Lake Committee raised the money for the fence.
