YMCA Camp Sloper secured $500,000 in additional funding this past legislative session, giving the East Street outdoor center the remaining money needed to dredge Sloper Pond. Sloper Pond has been naturally filling up with silt, and eventually would have turned into a shallow marsh — making it unusable for swimmers at Camp Sloper. The $500,000 gives the YMCA, which owns the pond, the final push it needs to complete the project. Dredging is expected to be completed sometime in the summer of 2024. Eventually the Y secured a contract with a company that would dredge the pond for $3.6 million. That led Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA CEO Mark Pooler to reach out to Poulos, bringing him out to the camp to discuss the possibility of securing the last $500,000 needed for the project. By the end of the project, over 125,000 yards of silt will have been removed from the bottom of the pond, not only deepening it but improving its overall health.
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