The lights in City Park’s Ferril Lake will twinkle again this evening after nearly two months of repairs caused by a lightning strike.
The center nozzle that fires a 90-foot geyser was struck on June 26, damaging the LED lights and equipment inside the vault, according to the Friends of the Electric Fountain, a citizens group that pushed for the 101-year-old light’s repair, completed last year.
The fountain puts on lighted, choreographed water shows about every half-hour each night after dark from spring to fall.
After decades in disrepair, the fountain was rededicated last year after a $3.2 million overhaul.
The fountain shows resumed just before the Democratic National Convention last August, a century after the original fountain was completed before the Democrats’ 1908 convention.
The new fountain is operated by computer software and operates with energy-efficient LED lights and recycles water, while aerating the lake to reduce algae and improve the habitat for fish.
