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Oregon State Parks personnel, with the help from Shutter Creek Correctional Institute inmates, clean the pond in the botanical garden at Shore Acres State Park on Thursday.
World Photo by Madeline Steege
Gold fish from the pond swim in two 5-gallon buckets waiting for the Shore Acres pond to be cleaned.
World Photo by Madeline Steege
Shutter Creek Correctional Institute inmates dug out muck 10 to 12 inches deep. They and Shore Acres State Park employees will clean and fertilize the pond plants and remove the dead ones.
World Photo by Madeline Steege
A newt wanders across the gravel walkway at the Shores Acres botanical garden pond, as workers undertake the annual cleaning project to remove muck.
CHARLESTON - Forty goldfish and 400 newts are in luck, thanks to people shoveling muck. They’ll have clean living environs.
Oregon State Parks personnel, with help from the Shutter Creek Correctional Institute inmates, cleaned the Shore Acres State Park pond this week. The mud was 10 to 12 inches thick, requiring the mud-booted workers to scrape and sweep the ooze to the west end of the pond, but not down the drain.
The mud is dumped outside the botanical gardens and covered with mulch.
What happens to all those coins people toss in the pond? Well, there aren’t many, said park ranger Supervisor Ellie Kinney-Martial. Park workers take the coins, which are stained black, and clean and tumble them. Then they donate the money to the Friends of Shore Acres.
The Shutter Creek inmates said they had seen 300-400 newts in the pond when they started cleaning. They rescued them and set the amphibians on the edge of the pond. Most wandered into the foliage. The park rangers expected to take two to three days to complete the annual cleaning project.
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