Flaking from frigid freeze forces fancy fountains fix

FORT COLLINS – The Eye’s eye was caught recently by the sight of workers tearing up the new Oak Street Plaza fountain area in downtown Fort Collins.

Jack hammers were pounding away at the new fancy sidewalks, embellished with red crushed glass, which were just installed last August. It seems the sidewalks had fallen victim to a particularly cold and snowy winter and were beginning to flake away.

“It was just a hard winter,´ said Bill Whirty, maintenance supervisor for the city’s parks department. “The regular concrete’s held up fine. It’s the fancy stuff with the crushed glass.”

The city, along with the…