Wreck Pond Work Authorized By Freeholders

The Monmouth County Freeholders at their regular meeting last week authorized an agreement with Wall Township allowing Wreck Pond sediment removal work to be staged near an area of the pond west of Route 71.

The county requires access as part of a sediment control project at the pond.

Joseph Ettore, county engineer, said the low water depth on the south side of Wreck Pond near an underused parking lot provides ideal access to a section of the pond where sediment has built up. The deposit is in the center of the pond and has split the water channel, he said.

“We’re doing this as part of a pilot program with the DEP,” Ettore said. “We’re going to be using a backhoe which will carry itself out on stone, remove the silt that has developed inside the pond and then work that material out and remove the stone.”

The county Department of Public Works will begin work on the project in early September and continue through the winter, Ettore said.