After a seven-year hiatus and years of repair work, the fountain at Meridian Hill Park in Northwest D.C. was turned back on this week, and the lower part of the park was reopened.
The cascading fountain was shut down in 2019 when the National Park Service started sprucing up the park’s lower plaza.
Then officials found that the fountain needed extra work, the National Park Service explains on its website.
The fountain was turned back on Thursday, coinciding with the reopening of the lower plaza. Work is still ongoing in the upper part of Meridian Hill Park, and the grassy areas there are expected to remain closed through the summer, the National Park Service said.
“This is my first day seeing it with water actually working. It looks so beautiful. I didn’t even realize that much water in an area could exist,” nearby resident Reiland Brown told Washington’s WTOP-FM on Friday.
The Meridian Hill Park fountain is one of nine in D.C. being rehabilitated in President Trump’s executive order titled “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful,” the National Park Service said in a release in January.
The other eight fountains, also located in Northwest, are:
- The Columbus Plaza fountain
- The Freedom Plaza fountain
- The John Marshall Park fountain
- The John Paul Jones Memorial fountain
- The Lafayette Square fountain
- The Philip Sheridan Memorial fountain
- The Rawlins Park fountain
- The Simon Bolivar Memorial fountain
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