Whitefish meeting to look at sites for cemetery

The city of Whitefish will host an open house at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13, to get community input on proposed locations for a new city cemetery.

The meeting will be held at the Whitefish City Hall council chambers, 402 E. Second St.

There are two site options being considered.

One location is just over 11 acres off Monegan Road near the city’s sewer treatment plant. The other option is 8.6 acres at the city’s Public Works Department shops at the end of 18th Street West.

The city outgrew its nearly century-old cemetery near the Whitefish Lake Golf Course about 20 years ago and last year began the process of creating new burial grounds.

An ad hoc cemetery committee has met since April 2011 to evaluate possible locations and development of a new public city cemetery.

A survey was mailed out to city utility customers in February. The results of that survey, along with results of findings of the soils investigation and groundwater monitoring at the two city-owned sites, will be part of the information presented at Thursday’s meeting.  

The committee soon will make its recommendation to the City Council.