The Town of Wake Forest is one step closer to again owning the Smith Creek Reservoir, also called Wake Forest Lake, and the Guy G. Hill Water Treatment Plant on Wait Avenue (N.C. 98).
The action came during the closed session the Wake Forest Town Board held at the close of Tuesday night’s regular agenda and is the result of three years of discussion and negotiation with the City of Raleigh, which took title to the reservoir and plant as part of the Utility Merger Agreement on July 1, 2005 after two years of negotiation about the merger. Raleigh City Council members will have to approve the property transfer of about 142 acres.
The town has a plan to upgrade the parking lot and launch area at the lake. Only unmotorized boats are allowed on the lake because it remains a possible drinking water supply and its watershed is protected by several property purchases the town has made over the years.
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This is late to mention this, but I hope you all have seen the beautiful mural on the side of the Renaissance Centre painted by Taylor White. It was a project of the town’s Public Art Commission and made possible by a grant from Wake County.
