Posted on December 9, 2015
By Emily K. Coleman, Northwest Herald
The dredging of Wonder Lake was expected to take a little more than a year to finish. But now, two years in, the project is set to stretch into year three, the lake manager said.
The upside is that the contractor is being paid a flat rate to remove about 480,000 cubic yards of sediment instead of being paid for time and materials, lake manager Randy Stowe said.
The lake restoration project – which struggled to come to fruition since the 1960s – began in 2013 with the construction of a sediment drying facility where the material removed from the lake will dry out and perhaps be sold and has continued with the systematic dredging of various areas of the lake.
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