Someone dumped soap into the fountain at Rockway Gardens in Kitchener over the weekend

It is one of the oldest pranks going.

Someone dumped soap into the fountain at Rockway Gardens in Kitchener over the weekend.

But a volunteer with the Kitchener Horticultural Society says thankfully city staff were able to get to it in time from it becoming too costly of a clean-up.

"We put a call in to the city plumber, and the city plumber is taken away from another job, rushes out to the gardens...Puts the solution in the fountain, and that happened, so we were able to deal with it pretty quickly." Bruce MacNeil told The Mike Farwell Show on 570 NEWS.

That solution will get rid of the suds.

MacNeil says if they had to drain the water, the fix would have cost close to $500.

"I have mixed reactions, I was a kid once, and pranks that didn't hurt people were fun, but I also know the implications...Those things are easier to deal with that some other things that have happened at the gardens, like the theft of a concrete bench, some graffiti on some of the benches." he said.

"All of those things are things that we have to deal with and cost considerably more money."

When it comes to it comes to the damage Mother Nature has caused, MacNeil says they lost seven original fir trees in the spring wind storm.

He says they are now gathering suggestions from local arborists.

The Kitchener Horticultural Society has managed Rockway Gardens since 1928.