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Photos from the implementation of the Little Fresh Pond Shoreline Restoration and Drainage Improvements Project, in construction sequence. Visit the project page to learn more: Little Fresh Pond Shoreline Restoration and Drainage Improvements Project.
Golf Tee #9 During Construction
Placing sod on the newly constructed golf tee.
Golf Tee construction completed.
Perimeter Road tree clearing.
Perimeter road with trees cleared.
Trench excavation for irrigation and drainage vault.
Crane lifting vault.
Placing vault.
Vault in place.
Preexcavation of perimeter road slope with silt curtain in place.
Excavation of perimeter road slope.
Coir roll placement along golf course side slope.
Staking coir rolls along Little Fresh Pond.
Sediment forebay excavation.
Cedar Log placement at south beach entrance.
Coir facine placement in southwest wetland.
Dirt weir constructed in Little Fresh Pond.
Prepping the boundary wetland on golf course side.
Tree placement and soil stabilization fabric along perimeter road side of the Pond.
Volunteers registering to help plant on Earth Day.
Volunteers planting in coir rolls.
Northeast Wetland Prep
Northeast wetland prep plantings.
Southwest boardwalk construction beginning.
Bench base outline.
Bench base construction.
Boardwalk continued construction.
Irrigation and drainage pipes construction.
Irrigation and drainage pipe installation.
Removing the silt curtain.
Planting the southwest triangle.
Laying sod.
Northwest wetland after planting.
Little Fresh Pond nearing completion.
Completed Boardwalk
Silt curtain effectively containing loose sediments from perimeter road resurfacing.
Golf course wetland buffer.
Perimeter Road grading.
Perimeter Road construction.
Perimeter road paving.
Wetland plantings one year later.
Restoration plantings one year later seen on Bioengineering sitewalk.
Southern emergent wetland, seen on Bioengineering Sitewalk.
Southern emergent wetland.
Finished Little Fresh Pond restoration.
View overlooking Little Fresh Pond after the completion of the Shoreline Restoration and Drainage Improvements Project.