Last night, after hearing presentations from your Walnut Creek Aquatic Foundation, Harley Ellis Devereaux, (HED), and deliberating, a process that took 2 1⁄2 hours, the Walnut Creek City Council selected HED as their partner to move forward in the planning, construction, and operation of a new aquatics facility at Heather Farm Park. This is disappointing news for those who have …

WALNUT CREEK — The deteriorating and inadequate Clarke Swim Center will be rebuilt, operated and its scope expanded by a national firm in partnership with the city. Michigan-based engineering company Harley Ellis Devereaux won the City Council’s nod Tuesday to go ahead with a project the city in 2011 estimated might cost more than $22 million. It rejected the locally …