AVALON — About 75 volunteers from the Borough of Avalon planted dune grass stolons during the Borough’s annual Dune Grass Planting Day held on Oct. 17. The new dune grass was planted on Avalon’s dunes in the area of 13th Street to 15th Street.
The annual planting event is sponsored by the Avalon Environmental Commission, the Avalon Department of Public Works, and the Avalon Department of Recreation. Each year volunteers are equipped with special devices that make a small planting area in the dune for the new dune grass to be planted. A healthy dune grass system strengthens and enforces the structural integrity of the dune while providing a scenic dune environment.
This year’s event was supposed to be held on Oct. 3 but was postponed by a nor’easter storm. Volunteers who plant the dune grass are provided a presentation on the importance of a healthy dune system and treated to breakfast and lunch.
The dune grass planting is held annually in event of Avalon’s successful aerial dune grass fertilization effort. Weather permitting, all dune grass in Avalon will be fertilized from an airplane over a two and a half hour period sometime during the week of Oct. 19 through the 23. Non-toxic, pellet formed fertilizer will be dropped onto the dune grass.
For more information, visit www.avalonboro.net
Photos by Avalon Business Administrator/Public Information Officer Scott Wahl.
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