The evacuation: the beginning of the pond restoration.
As sad as it is for Ijams to admit or accept, but our beautiful Plaza Pond in front of the Visitor Center has developed a leak or leaks and is not holding water. It has to be dredged down to its 8-inch-thick, circa 1998, concrete liner and repaired.
We have no idea how long it will take until we locate the problem.
We began the process yesterday when a group of courageous volunteers—the A Team of critter catchers—joined me to rescue and evacuate all the aquatic life we could catch and move them to a second pond. It was hot mucky work.
Our team also conducted a biological inventory of all we found: hundreds of tadpoles, plus frogs, newts, turtles and numerous aquatic invertebrates including two leeches and two hellgrammites! But oddly, no snakes.
A huge thank you goes out to Annabel, Oliver, Abby, Jacob, Linda, Tess, Bruce, Gloria and Evelyn.
Supplied photos by Linda Knott, Clare Datillo and Jack Gress.
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| Don't try this at home. Snapping turtles will bite and won't let go. |
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| The A Team of muckrakers, plus Tess and Bruce. |
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