At Least The Trail Isn't Completely Washed Out (For Now) [with update]

It always pains me to write or say this: The Hudson Youth Department is responsible for maintaining all of Oakdale Park.  Yes, all of Oakdale Park -- including the trails, the lake and the beach -- all year long.  Not DPW, but Liz York's Youth Department.

Repairing the recently washed-out section of trail behind Oakdale Lake will not be easy or cheap, and neither the Youth Department nor DPW is equipped to handle it.  If it's not fixed soon, the washout is only going to expand.  

From whose budget will the money come from for the repair work, who will do the work, and will the trail be improved so that this doesn't happen again (which it very well could)?

More carbon in the atmosphere, more rain.  More rain, more mudslides.  More machinery to fix the mudslides, more carbon in the atmosphere.  The climate change death loop. 

UPDATE:  Soon after I informed Youth Director Liz York of the trail washout, she told me that Columbia County owned that property and that she would be calling the "appropriate people."  Unconvinced of her claim, I then called the CC Real Property Tax Service Agency to inquire about the long parcel of land that includes the trail through the woods from Spring Street to the DSS exit driveway (as well as the entire driveway to 7th Street, it turns out).  I was told that the Niagara Mohawk Power Company owns that parcel.  But Niagara Mohawk no longer exists as a company since it was purchased by National Grid in the year 2000. 

If anyone is responsible for repairing that washout, it is Niagara Mohawk...er, I mean ... National Grid.  Oh yeah, that work will start real soon!  Maybe they will stop their work on the 300 block of State Street they've been at for three weeks and get right on their missing trail before someone falls in the hole and is swallowed by the swamp below, never to be seen again!