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Purer Ponds Will Result From County Park Project

By Press Release

COURT HOUSE — Work has begun to improve the water quality of three ponds and the Holmes Creek downstream at the Cape May County Park and Zoo.
The Park Zoo Pond Restoration Project is funded by a $500,000 grant from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency under the Federal Clean Water Act Section 319 (h).
The restoration will continue through the fall and early spring of 2018 at the Park and Zoo,  707 Route 9 North in  Court House. 
During the restoration, a 50-foot area surrounding all three ponds will be temporarily fenced off for safety purposes.
The parking lot near the park pond as well as all of Park East will also be closed off to the public.
Project activities will include the removal of the concrete and automobile tire retaining walls along the southerly edge of the park pond. 
The pond banks will be regraded and replanted with carefully selected native plants to improve water quality and to reduce use by non-migratory waterfowl. 
Accumulated sediment will be removed from the bottom of all three park ponds, including the Park East pond and the south pond on the south side of Crest Haven Road.
Sediment will be removed by bucket and hydraulic excavation and will be treated and stabilized for reuse as topsoil.  

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