The city of Aurora is looking to do work on Mastodon Lake at Phillips Park to improve water quality, stabilize the lake shore and make it more usable for recreation.

The project, which has a roughly $5 million price tag and is in the proposed 2026 city budget, could be primarily funded through a $4 million state grant the Aurora City Council is set to consider accepting at a meeting on Tuesday. City officials say the rest of the funds would come from the city’s storm sewer fund, so not from the city’s main operating fund that is proposed to have budget cuts and layoffs .

“We are quite excited about what this is going to do for Mastodon Lake and Phillips Park in general,” Ian Wade of the city’s engineering division said at a meeting of the Aurora City Council’s Finance Committee last we

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