Salutations, I trust everyone is doing well.
I am pleased to share with you all, that a team consisting of NPS staff and myself executed an East Pond outflow valve digout on Monday. The goal was to follow up the success we had last year and that begins with an early start. There is a nice flow ongoing and I will be monitoring the outflow and keeping NPS updated on the drawdown progress. Last year it took at least 6 dig outs to keep things at optimum and maybe we will have to do the same this year or maybe not. The good news is that we are off to an early start. In other good news, the superintendent Jennifer Nersesian shared with me that efforts to replace the outflow infrastructure on the East Pond continues to make progress and is now in the design stage. I have no timeline on when sign off and construction will begin but I am hoping that we are in the final stages to finally seeing something implemented that would make it easier to manage the water level on the East Pond. Digging out that valve is back breaking work and it does not get easier with each season. Once the water level allows it, I will be on the Pond clearing and preparing trails. Updates will be shared as I deem necessary. Here is a link to the work effort on Monday that I tweeted out. https://twitter.com/birdingdude/status/1503500374136832007?s=21 Cheers, -------- “Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves could free our mind.” ~ Bob Marley “Tenderness and Kindness are not signs of weakness and despair but manifestations of strength and resolution” ~ Khalil Gibran "I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence." ~ Frederick Douglass 風 Swift as the wind 林 Quiet as the forest 火 Conquer like the fire 山 Steady as the mountain Sun Tzu The Art of War > (\__/) > (= '.'=) > (") _ (") > Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
