Fix the Toilets at Ascarate Park Today!

It almost sounds like a punchline to a joke. I can imagine Jay Leno using it in his monologue if he ever did a live show from El Paso.

Jay Leno: Boy the restrooms at Ascarate Park are really bad!

Audience: How bad are they?

Jay Leno: They are so bad that the county is bringing in port-a-potties as an improvement!!!

Okay, maybe it would’ve been a bad joke. But the point is that you just can’t make this stuff up. The restrooms are so bad that port-a-potties are seen as the cleaner alternative!

The restrooms didn’t get in the shape they are over night! This is something that has been allowed to happen for a long time. Ascarate is one of the great treasures of El Paso and the conditions of the restrooms there is a disgrace to us all. We should never have let it get that way and we should act faster to fix the problem.

No running water, toilets don’t function, and no doors on the stalls. So the band aid solution is to put in port-o-potties. If you saw the news footage of the ones being put in, you’ll notice they weren’t even new port-o-potties. They were older ones, probably well-tagged by now. I’ll look into it further, but there are nicer models available that are ADA compliant that could be used at the park.

A long-term solution needs to be developed and implemented immediately. Remember that it’s getting hotter by the day and use of a port-o-pottie and it’s contents baking in the hot west Texas sun will quickly make the port-o-potties a waste of money because they will not get the use the county paid for.

Lets make this right.