Lake Restoration Photos XIX

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Thanks to our intrepid lake reporter David Hatchcock for the pictures and the following update.

Forest Hill Lake is slowly, quietly filling, one good rain away from full pool. The great yellow machines that have snorted and growled through the summer have moved away from the lake, their work finished, and soon will be hauled away to another job. The mound of black silt, 40,000 yards of it, is gone.

There’s still work to be done, grading and clearing brush, cutting grass and weeds, planting marsh plants and upland trees.  The Parks Department has benches to repair and replace, new lights to line the shoreline. The roads need repairing from the summer of construction, but we can see, ahead of schedule, the results of the time and forethought by Parks planners and engineers, contractors and workmen.