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Pond Bay becomes Brown Bay Thursday night’s heavy rains clashed with a muddy Pond Bay worksite, resulting in a very brown Chocolate Hole salt pond. If there is properly installed silt fencing at the Pond Bay project, it isn’t working so well. I there’s not properly installed silt fencing, somebody’s got some explaining to do. (Thanks for the pics, Rob.) 
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August 16th, 2008 06:49
As a County Inspector in Pennsylvania for erosion control for more than 15 years, I find it funny that the developers of Pond Bay are using orange SNOW FENCING instead of silt fence to try and control the mud. Are you expecting a snowstorm on St. John that I am unaware of. You would think the developers and contractors would try to be a little friendlier to the environment. If our creeks looked that brown after a rain storm, there would be at least a $100,000 fine!
August 16th, 2008 07:29
Just yesterday, I read an article about the rapid rise in the earth’s aquatic dead zones. Runoff due to increaed coastal development is listed as one of the causes. Such a shame.
August 16th, 2008 07:57
I can see the coral choking now………Bummer
August 16th, 2008 16:57
We just stayed at a villa in Chocolate Hole area 2 weeks ago and drove past this construction site every day. The fencing that is in the picture is likely for property boundary control as the first picture above was taken from the road and the runoff to the pond is the other direction… Not so pretty a sight.
August 16th, 2008 18:43
oooops Snow fencing used to hold silt runoff? Can’t wait to see how they handle the surge from a hurricane…god forbid.
August 16th, 2008 18:45
Not to downplay the seriousness of the Pond Bay situation, I did see a post from STJ on Friday noting that some of the more popular beaches also had brown water after the huge downpour on Thursday night. If the amount of rain was as much as we have been led to believe, I wonder how much even proper silt control would have helped under these conditions.
August 17th, 2008 08:03
Guess the question is “what is proper silt control?” in a climate where torrential rains are normal–not every day, but at least once a year we can expect those 6 inches in a day, or 20 inches in a week. OUr government has been so pro-development for so long, they don’t have a clue what to even ask for in an environmental assessment or construction safeguards!
August 17th, 2008 13:27
to be fair when i worked at Maho we could stand at the pavilion and look out at Mary’s Point during a heavy rain storm and watch the water turn brown all throughout Francis Bay. It would come off the land from Mary’s Point (no development since the last plantation was overgrown) and go all around to Francis, in front of the Campground and into Maho Bay as well. Runoff may be more dramatic or “thick” at development sites but it does happen naturally all over the island regardless of the construction.
August 18th, 2008 11:22
I lived in Chocolate Hole 33 years ago and remember that the Pond (and some of the Bay) always got muddy after big rains. THAT’S WHY THE POND IS SO IMPORTANT! It keeps the Bay clean. If it happens after small rains, then you know that the cleared land is at fault. Check out Red Hook flooding due to the clearing of all that hillside where the new construction is.
August 18th, 2008 16:44
I’m with Josh and Lonnie on this one.. (sorry I’m so late checking in but haven’t had internet access since Fri.) I WAS LOST!!!!