FORESTVILLE - Nearly a year and a half into the drawdown of the Forestville Millpond, residents frustrations since last summer have not been lessened.
The drawdown started November 2019 as a way to improve water quality, reduce the invasive carp population and encourage native plant diversity, according to a Door County Facilities and Parks Department fact sheet on the county website.
The county opened the gate at the Forestville dam on the Ahnapee River to lower the water level by no more than three inches a day. This would allow the sediment at the bottom composed of solid materials like rocks, minerals and plants to encrust and compact, which would also improve the pond s depth.
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FOND DU LAC - The Fond du Lac County Health Department reported 29 more positive COVID-19 tests since last Friday, according to its Community Impact Dashboard.
The county s total positive case count is now up to 12,027, as of the 2 p.m. Friday update. There are 69 active cases in the county, and two of those people are hospitalized.
To date, 11,855 people have been released from isolation measures and the department has recorded 125,897 negative tests.
Since last Friday, the department also added two deaths in connection to COVID-19: a 71-year-old woman and a 77-year-old man died in December. The dashboard s total death count remains at 103.
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