Cliff Day Receives Award from James Connaughton, D.J. Monette and Eric Schrading on Right

The Completed Evans Pond Fish Ladder On the Cooper River, New Jersey

On May 13, 2002, a Coastal America Award Ceremony, held at Wallworth Lake Park in Haddonfield, New Jersey, honored, among other members of the Cooper River Fishway Restoration Team, the New Jersey Field Office (NJFO). Individual awards were also presented to Eric Schrading, Private Lands Coordinator, and D.J. Monette, now the Native American Liaison for Region 5, who originally assisted restoration efforts at the Cooper River sites for the NJFO. From 1997 to 2000, the NJFO partnered with the Camden County Parks Department, Delaware Riverkeeper, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the National Marine Fisheries Service, the New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife, the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, the Fish America Foundation, Public Service Electric and Gas Incorporated, the Alden Research Laboratory, and Dissen & Juhn Corporation to construct two fish ladders along the Cooper River. The ladders, installed at the dams at Wallworth Lake and Evans Pond, enable spawning alewives and blueback herring to migrate eight miles further upstream than was previously possible. James Connaughton, who chairs President Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, served as master of ceremonies for the event and presented the Coastal America Award, signed by President Bush, to Col. Timothy Brown, NAP District Engineer for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, on behalf of the entire Restoration Team. The same Award was then presented to individual team members, including Eric Schrading and D.J. Monette. Supervisor Clifford Day accepted in behalf of the NJFO. Mr. Day also spoke at the ceremony and was among the dignitaries who completed the festivities by releasing a number of herring into Evans Pond.

Wallworth Lake Dam / Before

Wallwoth Lake Dam / During

Wallworth Lake Dam / After

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