Mermaids and Fountains

I have always loved the four metal, maybe copper mermaids in the grassy area in front of the Municipal Palace. A couple of years ago one of them disappeared. Tuesday she was replaced with an exact copy, except in CEMENT. What a shock!!! At least she has been replaced.

We think they were once fountains, along with the fuente del soul, the dolphins on la ropa and likely other things. So what happened? Did electricity and water become too expensive to keep them running? Was it the personal project of one of our past presidentes? There are bound to be even more that we aren't aware of and would llke to look at...

The statue of the dolphins at La Ropa is the only one of the statues you mention that was once a fountain. It would clog up or break periodically, and the municipal government would fix it. If I recall correctly, Helmut of Villa del Sol even offered to fix it, but the municipal government refused his help, so it's sat there as a broken fountain for decades now.

Apparently the current municipal government is apparently so bent on selling the mayor's husband's own cement that they couldn't even replace the missing sirena statue with a true duplicate. They were made by Crescencio Oregón Torres of Pantla, and he should still have the original molds. It's insulting they would replace such a work of art with their own cheap cement copy.