Englewood MetroPark’s 40-acre wetland — once even nicknamed “Englewood Lake” because of plentiful water and aquatic species — ran into a major issue: It was no longer wet.
That’s what led Five Rivers MetroParks staff to coordinate a months-long project last spring to restore the wetland once more. The aim is to see the return of its wetland species.
The wetland has maintained water thanks to a levee, sometimes referred to as a berm. But the levee containing the water had three erosion points, creating channels for water to escape…