power station went online in April 2003. Art The Phoenix City Council approved an expenditure of $60,000 in April 2000 to design the restoration of the falls. The total city budget for the project was $300,000. By 2002, the city's contribution had increased to $1.5 million under the Arts Commission. The park was designed by Boston architect Lajos Heder and sculptor Mags Harries, under commission of the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture. The landscape architect was Steve Martino. Heder and Harries, who are married and had worked on a prior Phoenix public art project, were selected in January 2000 after winning an open competition for the design that received five entries. The park incorporates the original rust-encrusted gears used in the original power station. Signage tells of the history and design of the plant. Visitors can walk across the canal on a footbridge. As the canal and waterfall are fed with water from the Salt River watershed and its five major dams that store water in the SRP system, the park features a boulder from each of the dam sites. The park, made primarily of concrete, stone, and steel, had a budget of over $2 million in 2003. Funding was provided by the City of Phoenix and the US Bureau of Reclamation. The Bureau of Reclamation owns the federal land on which the canal is located and leases it to the canal operator, SRP. Concrete channels run underneath a deck, named the Stoa Deck after the Greek word for "gathering place", and guide the canal into the power station turbines at an average rate of . of water is diverted to the waterfall features of the park, two waterfalls and a water wall that surround the viewing platform or "outdoor room", fed by two small aqueducts. Poetry about water, written by Arizona's first state poet laureate, Alberto Rios, is sandblasted into concrete. Although located on Bureau of Reclamation land leased to SRP, the park is maintained by the City of Phoenix as is the city's adjacent G.R. Herberger Park, where visitor parking for the combined facility is located. The site reopened to the public on June 21, 2003. The park project was combined with a street landscape improvement project on two miles of Indian School Road from 48th to 64th Streets where the canal was above grade and its banks were unattractive gunite concrete. The canal was hidden with