Deal Lake Commission
Monmouth
County, NJ
View the historic 1896 lake photo
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Next
Commission Meeting
Thurs,
October 16, 2008 @ 7 pm
Loch Arbour Municipal Building
Coming Up.....
Oct 6 to 13
Deal Lake
Lowered for
Clean-Up
The lake will be
lowered so property owners may perform lake
clean-up.
Last Meeting of
Year
Thurs, December 4, 2008
@ 7pm
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Friends Of Deal
Lake
Next Friends Meeting:
Thursday, October 30, 2008, 7 pm
at Interlaken
Borough Hall
The
Friends of Deal Lake is a grass roots advocacy group.
Check out their
new website
FriendsOfDealLake.com.
If you would
like be part of this active group then come to the next meeting
or contact them at
FriendsOfDealLake@Yahoo.com.
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Deal Lake
Regional Storm Water Management Plan (RSWMP) News
The NJ DEP continues to
drag their feet as to when final approval will be
given to our RSWMP. Updates on progress will be provided at
our regular monthly meetings.
Download the latest
versions of our RSWMP
Regulatory Standards and
Voluntary Measures.
Here are a
list of suggestions from our Environmental
Consultant and an older list of
proposed
projects that we are considering for
inclusion into the Deal Lake RSWMP.
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Great
Stormwater Website
Check out the State of
Maryland's Department of the Environment website about
Stormwater. It's one of the best
educational sites we have seen.
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Maps
and Facts
A
simple map helps
understand the complexity of Deal Lake's Ecosystem.
Fishermen
Deal Lake's public
boat ramp is located at the western end of 7th
Avenue next to the railroad tracks. Just West
of Main Street (Route 71). Here's a Google
Map to the Boat Ramp. Many trophy size
Large Mouth Bass have been caught. Read
NJ's Best
Kept Fishing Secret.
Bacterial Source Study Presentation
At our
February 13th meeting, John Tiedemann of Monmouth University and
Bill Sciarappa of Rutgers University presented the results
of water testing at 10 locations within Deal Lake. The
testing revealed high occurrence Fecal Coli from waterfowl,
wild animals, farm animals (mostly likely transported via
geese) and humans (most likely from breeched sanitary
sewers). Pet waste is relatively low. More to
come.
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Commission Seeks Funding
Senator Sean Kean,
Assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini and Assemblyman Dave Rible have sponsored
funding bills requesting $470,000 for Flume Electrification, Flume Protective
Grate Upgrade, Hydro-raking of about 14 acres and funds to locate leaking
sanitary sewers. The Senate Bill is S2093 and the Assembly BIll is
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Regatta - A Huge Success!!
The Friends of
Deal Lake sponsored a Lake Regatta on Saturday, September 27th. Over 100
residents and friends of Deal Lake attended several home parties and made
donations that will fund long-term projects to improve Deal Lake's water
quality. Assemblywoman Mary Pat Angelini was in attendance and listened
intently to the problems and how the state has so neglected regular maintenance
for the lake.
"The Commission would like to thank everyone who
worked hard to make this event happen. Seeing the revived Friends of Deal
Lake functioning again is a dream come true," said John Everson, Chairman of the
Commission. "With so many active people in the Friends our government
leaders can no longer ignore the terrible condition of Deal Lake."
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State of Deal Lake Report Released
A working draft of
the Commission's first comprehensive report has been released.
Download
State of Deal Lake Report in pdf.
Purpose:
"This report focuses
attention on the critical environmental problems of Deal Lake and its
tributaries. The report offers the best cost-effective solutions and emphasizes
the need to bring municipalities, county departments and state agencies together
to find funding and resources to implement these solutions.
For decades the emphasis has been to clean the
ocean without regard for the polluted coastal lakes and their
impact on the ocean. This report lays the foundation to restore
Deal Lake by identifying all the issues and proposing realistic
solutions. Some solutions are contrary to existing state
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Weed Harvesting
Completed
8/29/08
The Commission completed weed
harvesting of the Sunset Section of Deal Lake. The
difference is astonishing! Just like last year, it
looked like you could walk across the lake on a green
carpet.
This photo shows the excessive
weed growth
The first phase of weed control
occurred on June 13th when our lake consultant,
Princeton Hydro, applied over 1100 lbs of Navigate, a
systemic herbicide that killed most weeds in the shallow
areas of the Sunset Section.
Applying Navigate Herbicide
On July 30th, the only
contractor in the tri-state area, began a thorough
harvesting of the 8 acre section and removed about 50 cubic
yards of Milfoil, Labomba, and Lillies.
Here's the Weed Harvester at
work
Ocean Township Public Works was
stationed on the lake access point just off Wickapecko Drive
with a huge clam shell front-end loader and one of their
leaf and brush trucks. The entire operation went quite
smooth, thanks to the experience of the OT Public Works
employees and Director.
As the weed
harvester is working close to shore, the before and after
can be clearly seen.
Knowing that the weed problem
is spreading to other sections of lake, the Deal Lake Commission
has already begun the process to apply for a Weed Treatment
permit from the DEP for next year. Ultimately, the
solution to ending the weed problem is to remove the last 50
years of organic build-up that feeds the growth. As
discussed in our
State of Deal Lake Report, since dredging right now is
out of reach, our best solution is to "hydrorake" the
shallow sections of the lake to remove all the organic
material, weeds, and debris. Aquatic Analysts
has a video on YouTube. View the
company's video to see how the Aquamog or Hydrorake works.
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 Deal Lake
is a beautiful treasure savored by residents, vacationers, fishermen
and boaters for over a century. Lenni Lenape Indians would fish
and eat the bounty of clams and oysters. During Colonial times the British harvested seafood to be sent back to England.
During the Revolutionary War, Patriots would execute small attacks on
British ships retreating to Deal Lake for cover from the British Navy
as they fired their cannons at them.
Called Lake Uliquecks
by the Lenape Indians, an
1781 map shows Deal Lake was known as White's
Pond. In the early 1800's it was known as Hogs Swamp Pond.
On the
1851 Lightfoot map, it was called Corlies Pond or Great Pond while
Sunset Lake was known as Little Pond. An
1873 map calls it
Boyleston Great Pond and shows it still is accessible to the ocean. With the engineering
completed around 1890, Deal Lake was created as it is known today,
closing off the inlet and creating several separate lakes and ponds.
Deal Lake was a model system of the late nineteenth century for Flood
Control and Storm Water Management. Over time, the lake lured many
to build along its banks. Today, almost the entire shoreline has
been developed with many homes built within the 100 year flood plain.
The Deal Lake
Commission was created by the seven Monmouth County, NJ towns that surround Deal Lake.
The Commission was chartered in 1974 by the Borough of Allenhurst, City
of Asbury
Park, Borough of Deal, Borough of Interlaken, Village of Loch Arbour, Neptune Township, and Ocean
Township.
Today, the Commission oversees the vitality, on-going
maintenance and restoration to preserve Deal Lake for
future
generations. Each town appoints one volunteer Commissioner to serve
annually. Commissioners give of their time because of their love for
this lake and for their desire to preserve this treasure for future generations.
These views are of Terrace Pond looking
towards the Colonial Terrace Golf Course. This section of Deal
Lake was entirely filled in and completely over grown with trees and
vegetation. Dredging, completed in 2003, restored most of the lake
to pre-1969 conditions.
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