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Way Back When Article, Cushing Daily Citizen, May 1999, Dredging Operation Completed At Cushing High School Pond

  

Dredging Operation Completed At Cushing High School Pond

Courtesy of The Cushing  Daily Citizen By Don Diehl, Reporter, May 1999

Mission Accomplished

The dredging operation at the Cushing High School Pond is complete and the "mission accomplished" said one of the individuals watching as the huge dredging equipment was loaded on a truck and taken back to the company who donated it for the project.  What was the mission?  To restore the pond to its original depth which will improve the fish habitat and clearity, and simply to beautify the body of water near the new Cushing High School field house.

The eight-week project came in under cost - way under cost. In fact it is the generosity of a local manufacturer that made the project possible at all. The dredging machine is one of several owned and manufactured by VMI.

Gene Maitlen, who founded the company here several years ago, was on hand to see the machine loaded. Seeing dredges loaded on trucks is common place for him. The company he now operates with his sons, has shipped their equipment all over the world. This one was being shipped just across Highway 33.  

Several of these smaller machines are leased by the day or month for between $1000 to $2000 per day. The Maitlens made this one available at no cost to their community. "This was the key in getting this done," said Dale Cotham who helped pull it all together. In turn, the school provided the operator and Lionel Harris of Harris Oil provided the fuel.

Jim Shields of Cushing High School, Gene Maitlen of VMI in Cushing, and dredge operator Kenneth Ward watch as a crew from Payne County load the dredge on a truck to be hauled back to VMI. The company donated teh use of teh machine so that the lake at the high school could be leaned and more than two feet of silt removed.

Daily Citizen Photo by Don Diehl

Jim Shields of Cushing High School, Gene Maitlen of VMI in Cushing, and dredge operator Kenneth Ward watch as a crew from Payne County load the dredge on a truck to be hauled back to VMI.  The company donated the use of the machine so that the pond at the high school could be leaned and more than two feet of silt removed.

"This is one of the real benefits of living in a small town," said Cotham. "People will step up to the plate to get something done." The pond is now at its original depth of 15 foot in the deepest part and an average of seven foot, overall.

The Bank of Cushing also will help see the lake is restocked with game fish. Jim Shields said the Cushing Vo-Ag class plans to make restocking a project. "None of this could have happened without the help of others."

Operator Kenneth Ward waved goodbye to the machine. The dredging, which made statewide news when he turned up a purse that had been missing for 30 years, had been an adventure for him. He also found old tires, hubcaps, fishing poles and lures and even a Texas license plate. "I also found some grass carp teeth," Ward said. "At least that's what people tell me they are," he said. "Pretty weird." Some of the carp along with game fish were victims of last summer's drought.

An agreement made with the City of Cushing years ago when the city gave McLaury's Pond and surrounding property to the school calls for the school to maintain the body of water for use of the public. Ward was trained to operate the dredge by Randy Maitlen. The job took about eight weeks.

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Location: 1125 N Maitlen Dr, Cushing, OK 74023, USA

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