Bray Park Shoreline Restoration
Completed in 2012
During the winter of 2011/2012 over 1500 feet of severely eroded shoreline in Bray Park was protected with rip rap. The project was spearheaded by Curt Kloss and carried out with the support of Blue Earth County and the Madison Lake Watershed and Lake Association. Blue Earth County provided 26 truckloads of rock and trucking. Equipment and labor was provided by lake association members and friends: Jim Schmidt with Creative Landscape, Leon Depuydt with Leon’s Custom Backhoe, Larry Schulze and Tom Dougan. Labor to place the rock was provided by a large group of lake association members. The results of the work have been excellent. The rip rap has prevented the further erosion of shoreline and loss of trees on the hillside below the Bray Park campsites.
Read more about maintaining natural shorelines according to the DNR here.