{"id":10614,"date":"2013-05-06T08:34:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/?p=10614"},"modified":"2013-05-06T08:34:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-06T12:34:03","slug":"7500-grant-being-used-to-stabilize-banks-of-deal-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/2013\/05\/06\/7500-grant-being-used-to-stabilize-banks-of-deal-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"$7,500 Grant Being Used to Stabilize Banks of Deal Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Deal Lake Commission is using unused grant money toward the project.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

ASBURY PARK<\/strong> – A project at the Asbury Park boat ramp, near the Main Street Bridge over Deal Lake into Loch Arbour and Allenhurst, is underway to prevent soil erosion into the lake.<\/p>\n

Project Engineer Peter Avakian said the banks are being reinforced with a special matting made from coconut husks, which will then be planted with vegetation designed to stabilize the banks.<\/p>\n

The Deal Lake Commission<\/a> is giving about $7,500 in unused grant money toward the project, with the permission of the state Department of Environmental Protection, which issued to grant money to begin with.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are using the natural sloping shoreline so we don\u2019t have to build a bulkhead,\u201d Avakian said. \u201cThe coconut mat is a natural fiber that we can plant through. There will be all native plant species that will help prevent erosion and also look like beautiful plantings.\u201d<\/p>\n

Large stones are already onsite to create a pathway. Asbury Park officials have been working on improving the park for the past few years.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt will stabilize the banks for a long time and in a natural way,\u201d said Councilwoman Sue Henderson, who has been spearheading the boat ramp area\u2019s restoration.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are doing what we can to control sediment entering the lake,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Stephen Souza, the environmental consultant to the Deal Lake Commission, said that a variety of water-edge plants and some wetland grasses will be planted.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are all native vegetation and all designed to work at the water\u2019s edge to stabilize banks. Plus they will provide a little bit of color to help beautify things as well,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

A few trees and shrubs will also be planted, including red maples and shade bushes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ASBURY PARK – A project at the Asbury Park boat ramp, near the Main Street Bridge over Deal Lake into Loch Arbour and Allenhurst, is underway to prevent soil erosion into the lake. Project Engineer Peter Avakian said the banks are being reinforced with a special matting made from coconut husks, which will then be […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thecoaster.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}