We all know that Panther Hollow Lake, set the end of a scenic wooded ravine, is as pretty as a picture.
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| And so did local artist Cynthia Cooley, putting PHL on canvas... |
It's a lake for all seasons.
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| Spring and summer... (photo by Pitt Dad on Panoramio) |
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| The fall... (picture by Mohammed Noman from Flickr) |
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| The winter... (photo from CMU Digital Galleries) |
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| Capped, of course, with the iconic PHL shot by KitAy on Flickr. |
These images are the ones we have of Panther Hollow Lake in our memories, but they don't exactly represent the way it looks today. It's so silted that you can probably walk across it (wipe your feet, plz!) and the sediment has formed a delta at its headwaters.
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| After a good rain, the lake muddies, fills with silt & debris and sometimes overflows it banks. (picture from Chalie Hohn of Slow Water Movement blog) |
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| This lovely mud pile is the delta at the eastern end of the lake - from 2011! Now it's a full fledged wetlands with reeds, shrubs, trees and even feeding deer, a monument to the amount of runoff sediment that enters PHL. (picture by Rich Tenney) |
As we can see from this little two-page photo journey, PHL has a formed a bond with generations of Pittsburghers. We'd like to see it return to its glory days with a little TLC - routine maintenance, a couple of places to rest the bod and a good dredging every 10-15 years, while the Parks Conservancy continues to improve the watershed. We believe that it's time that the Panther Hollow Lake is taken off the back burner and becomes the main focus of those improvements.
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| Our Panther Hollow Lake. (picture by Haley of runyinzerrun blog) |
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