Bayberry Pond Restoration

In 2008 the Foundation used a Civic Pride Grant to partially fund restoration of Bayberry Pond near the Bayberry Drive entrance to Lime Ridge Open Space (North). This project is in many ways our most ambitious to date. We were happy to have an opportunity to increase riparian habitat in Lime Ridge because it has less water than the other Open Space units. Accumulated sediment was removed from the pond so that it will retain water longer in the spring. A nearby grass fire that summer provided an opportunity to do habitat restoration in the area near the pond. Foundation volunteers have been hard at work at the site ever since.

We are hoping that our newly-improved pond will attract a variety of amphibians and provide drinking water well into the summer. However, while we wanted more and longer-lasting water in the pond, we did not want to create a perennial pond because we did not want to encourage the reproduction of the non-native and voracious bullfrogs. And as we did with the Heather Farm creek, we found some native species around the pond that we could use as a guide in doing restoration.

On October 16, the Foundation received an award from the Action for Beauty Council for our work on Bayberry Pond.

Bayberry Pond Restoration

Visual Tour of Bayberry Pond Changes Over the Years