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Green Lake bay dredging complete

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An artist's rendering of the future wharf in downtown Green Lake

An artist's rendering of the future wharf in downtown Green Lake

Ahead of schedule, the dredging of Dartford Bay as phase one of the Deacon Mills Park wharf project is now finished, according to the Downtown Green Lake Renewal Project.

Starting in October, Johnston Pile Driving of Omro pumped sediment from the Dartford Bay into big black bags in Deacon Mills Park to deepen the water to a depth of around 6 feet.

The bags have been removed and the park is being graded.

Phase two of the wharf project is now in progress as Johnston Pile Driving is first repairing the existing boardwalk. The company has removed the decking and are mending the seawall.

This old boardwalk will get decking to match the new wharf.

Johnston Pile Driving plans to begin building the new wharf in the next week or so.

It will be 270 feet long and 6 feet wide, with one 8-by-8-foot handicap approach, three 6-by-10-foot approaches and seven benches.

Following that construction, riprapping of the shoreline will occur. The wharf project will be completed in the spring with a walkway on the land, lighting, native plantings and seeding of the park.

For more information, visit www.greenlakerenewal.org or the Downtown Green Lake Renewal Project’s Facebook page.

Source: http://riponpress.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubsectionID=36&ArticleID=3741

City of Ripon receives grant to fix dam at pond

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City receives grant to fix dam at pond by Ian Stepleton, Editor, Ripon Press

The city of Ripon has known it would need to invest tens of thousands of dollars into the Mill Pond dam to stabilize it for the future.

On Tuesday, the city found out it won’t have to do so alone.

The DNR announced this week that Ripon was one of 15 municipalities from around the state to receive matching grants that would enable the communities to “maintain, repair, abandon or remove the municipally owned structures.”

Ripon received a matching grant from the DNR. The city was approved for a $156,000 grant, plus another 40 percent for contingency. The city, meanwhile, budgeted $160,000 of its own dollars to match the state funds.

City Engineer Travis Drake was optimistic about getting the grant.

“I had more or less expected it,” he said.

According to a DNR press release, Ripon’s dam was considered the eighth-highest priority dam for receiving funds statewide.

It’s been on both the state and the city’s radar since 2008, when heavy rains led to flooding around the city and at the dam.

Read the full story in the Jan. 5, 2012 edition of the Ripon Commonwealth Press.

Excerpted from the Ripon Press website:   http://riponpress.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubsectionID=35&ArticleID=3713