UPDATE: White Rock lighting project placed on hold by Sheffie Kadane! Meeting scheduled May 22, 7:30, Winfrey Point

For neighbors living around White Rock Lake, their nighttime view of the lake (as well as a quiet moonlit evening) may soon be history.

Dallas has begun installing security lights in parking lots and on the East side of the lake.

So, who pushed the new security lights to soon ring White Rock Lake? Turns out, it may be a slick sales job by a lighting contractor and may cost millions after new wiring is run to power the 90-100 lights planned for installation in the next couple of years.

According to Chip Northrup, this is basically "a case of a consultant to Parks writing themselves into a bond issue - as a vendor."

Read the Story at the Dallas Observer