Eli Soll hopes a new water park planned for the Kennebec River in downtown Skowhegan will become an attraction for local families and a tool for recruiting workers to the area.

“We’re the gateway to the Great North Woods but we don’t have that one thing,” he said last week while standing on a bridge above the raging river below. “Having a river park might be a determining factor for somebody.”

The Skowhegan River Park — formerly known as Run of River — is an idea that’s been around town for 20 years, said Town Manager Christine Almand. But the recent infusion of a $2 million federal grant, one of dozens of projects statewide to benefit from the earmarks in the federal budget, means the project will get underway this summer.

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